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Virginia Despotidi,
Greece
Virginia Despotidi (64) is a French literature teacher working in secondary education. Her parents were active resistance members, exiled and imprisoned during the dictatorship, belonging to a cultural elite in Greece. Her father was the owner of a prestigious publishing house and her mother a well known political activist. Her personal trauma due to the absence of her parents when she was a child and teenager made her a conscious freedom fighter and democratic activist, who defends the need of proper citizenship education in schools.