Athena Lambrinidou

Athena Lambrinidou

Environmental Justice/Psychology of Climate Change//Community Engagement/Empowerment/Slow Journalism/Taking the conversation from financial markets to farmers markets and from boardrooms to living rooms

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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The Aunties Kitchen Therapy Sessions

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In our times of multi-faceted conflict, bringing and bridging together diverse, isolated, often traumatised families/people and creating/connecting community not online but face to face, feels like one of the most hopeful acts that we can offer each other as societies of people. I am excited to work with organisations, businesses and people wishing to further explore this incredible potential for our collective healing and growth.

In 1991, after helping to set up the first Greenpeace office in Athens, I embarked on a seven-year journey to the Mediterranean, the US, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a deckhand on board Greenpeace ships campaigning on climate change, nuclear waste, fisheries and marine pollution.

In 1996 I settled in New Zealand where I launched a number of community-based initiatives linking art and environmental awareness and worked as a researcher for ‘60 Minutes’ New Zealand.

I returned back to Greece in 2005 at the request of George Papandreou, then President of the Greek Socialist Party and later Prime Minister of Greece, to design and run projects linking the environmental crisis with participatory democracy.

In 2006 I was on the organizing committee of the ‘Religion, Science and the Environment’ symposium held in the Amazon under the auspices of HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

In 2007 I formed dotearth.gr, my own sustainability consultancy in Greece, where I worked with clients as diverse as Superfast Ferries, Kallimanis Seafood and Sklavenitis Supermarkets designing long term climate change and fisheries depletion strategies.

In 2013, I designed a weekly TV show for Greek National Television, empowering Greek housewives into environmental activism, entitled (in Greek) "Το Ημερολογιο μιας Οικολογριας". Upon the collapse of the Greek economy, I re-designed that show into ‘The Aunties: Taking the Planet Back”, an online international digital magazine and radio podcast wishing to ignite meaningful conversation, collaboration and, ultimately, progress on the climate and resource crises.

From 2016-18 I served as a maintenance van driver of a UNCHR funded NGO taking care of vulnerable refugee families in Athens, Greece.

Since moving back to New Zealand in 2019, needing to take a break from worrying about the planet for a living, I have worked as a Cast/Swing Driver for the Film Industry, an artist/ band driver for the Music Industry, and an Auckland Libraries Mobile Bus Librarian/Driver

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  • Founder/Director/Producer

    The Aunties Kitchen Therapy Sessions

    - Present 14 years

    International

    Initially conceived as a TV series addressing Greek housewives called "Oikologries", subsequently and due to the Greek financial crisis morphed into an international online magazine/radio podcast series called ‘‘The Aunties Kitchen Therapy Sessions” and now settled into the form of an international eco-political cooking show/radio podcast series called "The Aunties Taking the Planet Back" addressing Aunties, Mothers and Grandmothers wishing to ignite meaningful conversation, collaboration and…

    Initially conceived as a TV series addressing Greek housewives called "Oikologries", subsequently and due to the Greek financial crisis morphed into an international online magazine/radio podcast series called ‘‘The Aunties Kitchen Therapy Sessions” and now settled into the form of an international eco-political cooking show/radio podcast series called "The Aunties Taking the Planet Back" addressing Aunties, Mothers and Grandmothers wishing to ignite meaningful conversation, collaboration and, ultimately, progress on the climate and resource crises (pre-production)

  • Founder/Director

    dotearth creative communication concepts

    - Present 17 years

    Athens, Attiki, Greece

    Meaningful communication for creating positive change can happen in ways other than press releases and social media posts.

    Designed and assisted in the initial implementation of climate change and sustainability strategies for clients as diverse as Superfast Ferries, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Sklavenitis Supermarkets and Kallimanis Seafood in Greece.

  • Music/Film Industry Driver

    Music/Film Industry

    - 4 years 1 month

    Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Cast Driver, “Wolfman”, Wellington NZ, A Party Driver - John Butler, Synthony in the Domain, Auckland 2024, International Band/Crew Driver - AJ Tracey, St Jerome Laneway Festival, Auckland 2024, International Crew/A Party Driver - Foo Fighters, Auckland/Wellington 2024, Production Truck Driver - Rhythm & Vines, Gisborne 2023/24, International Crew Driver/Runner - Limp Bizkit, Auckland 2023, Band Driver/Runner - Whilst She Sleeps, Auckland 2023, International Crew Driver/Runner - Post Malone…

    Cast Driver, “Wolfman”, Wellington NZ, A Party Driver - John Butler, Synthony in the Domain, Auckland 2024, International Band/Crew Driver - AJ Tracey, St Jerome Laneway Festival, Auckland 2024, International Crew/A Party Driver - Foo Fighters, Auckland/Wellington 2024, Production Truck Driver - Rhythm & Vines, Gisborne 2023/24, International Crew Driver/Runner - Limp Bizkit, Auckland 2023, Band Driver/Runner - Whilst She Sleeps, Auckland 2023, International Crew Driver/Runner - Post Malone, Auckland 2023, International Crew Driver/Runner -JOJI, Auckland 2023, Band Driver, The Chicks, Auckland 2023, International Crew Driver -Charlie Puth, Auckland 2023, International Crew Driver - Steve Vai, Auckland 2023, Writers Driver - Verb Readers & Writers Festival, Wellington 2023, Writers Driver - Whanganui Literary Festival, Whanganui 2023, VIP driver, FOX Sports Journalists team, FIFA Women’s Soccer Tournament, Wellington 2023, Driver, Production Transport Services, Wellington 2023"Ed Sheeran Tour Auckland 2023" - Riggers/Steel Crew Driver, "Red Hot Chili Peppers Auckland 2023" - International Crew Driver, "Allan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age - Auckland 2023" - Artist/Crew Driver, "Jack Johnson in Auckland" - International Crew Driver 2022, "Billy Joel in Auckland" - Band Driver 2022, "Sweet Tooth" TV Series - Swing Driver, "Billie Eilish World Tour" International Crew Driver, "Lord of the Rings:The Rings of Power" TV Series NZ 2020-21 - Cast Driver/Assistant, "One of Us is Lying" TV Series - Swing Driver NZ 2022, Billie Eilish "Happier than Ever" NZ Tour - International Crew Bus Driver 2022, "The Convert" Feature Film - Tech Recce Bus Driver NZ 2022, "One Winter" Feature Film - Shuttle Driver NZ 2022

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    Auckland Libraries Mobile Bus Librarian/Community Connector

    Auckland Council

    - 10 months

    Auckland, New Zealand

    Connected during Covid, often isolated and traumatised people and communities around Auckland New Zealand, through "my" Auckland Libraries Mobile Bus brimming with exciting and thought provoking multi-cultural fiction and non-fiction books and stories. By setting up close to cafes or farmers markets, I managed to create an environment and a feeling of a "village square" of sorts, an inside and outside truly public library, a warm, safe and welcoming area for adults and children to sit browse…

    Connected during Covid, often isolated and traumatised people and communities around Auckland New Zealand, through "my" Auckland Libraries Mobile Bus brimming with exciting and thought provoking multi-cultural fiction and non-fiction books and stories. By setting up close to cafes or farmers markets, I managed to create an environment and a feeling of a "village square" of sorts, an inside and outside truly public library, a warm, safe and welcoming area for adults and children to sit browse, play, read, discuss and drink their coffees.

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    Refugee Van Driver/Climate Change Advisor

    ARSIS - Association for the Social Support of Youth

    - 2 years 6 months

    Athens, Attiki, Greece

    Supporting the needs of Arsis’/UNHCR Safe Zones and apartments around Athens housing vulnerable refugees. Designed current and future Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation strategies for Arsis as a whole

  • Logistics Assistant

    Religion, Science and Environment Symposia

    - 1 year 1 month

    Logistics/Research, Religion, Science and Environment Symposia “Amazon” and “Arctic”, Greece/Brazil – Held every two years in different parts of the world under the auspices of HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew these inter-faith symposia aim to bring together esteemed scientists, political activists and religious leaders to highlight and discuss international environmental issues of common concern

  • Environment and Participatory Democracy Advisor

    Andreas Papandreou Foundation

    - 8 months

    Athens, Attiki, Greece

    Advisor to George Papandreou then President of the Greek Socialist Party (PASOK) on the research, design and implementation of projects linking participatory democracy with environmental crises

  • Greenpeace Marine Services

    Greenpeace Marine Services

    7 years

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      Deckhand

      Greenpeace Marine Services

      - 6 years

      International

      Member of the crew of Greenpeace vessels S/V Rainbow Warrior, M/V Sirius, and M/V Moby Dick. Participated on Greenpeace campaigns and direct actions in the Mediterranean, US East Coast, North Africa, Caribbean, Mexico and the Pacific on issues including climate change, nuclear waste transports, waste trade, organochlorine pollution and cetacean surveys.

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      Trainee

      Greenpeace

      - 1 year

      Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

      New Office Development, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Trained for and set up the supporter services/fundraising part of the Greenpeace office which opened in Greece in May 1991.

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    Coordinator for Euritania Village Community Projects

    Save the Children Greece

    - 1 year

    Athens, Attiki, Greece

    Sole charge for Save the Children work in 13 villages in the mountains of Euritania in central Greece; prepared evaluations with the participation of all the communities of Save the Children’s previous work in the region; participated in local education issues.

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    Assistant to Africa Area Coordinator

    Amnestying

    - 1 year

    Washington DC-Baltimore Area


    Assisted with the research of submissions to US Congress regarding human rights issues in Africa; attended testimonies for Horn of Africa issues; participated in NGO coalition groups working on similar issues; fulfilled public inquiries on specific cases Amnesty was working on in Africa.

Education

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    Smith College

    Bachelor's degree Sociology and Anthropology

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  • Anatolia College

    High School Diploma

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  • Pierce College, Greece

    High School

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  • Moraitis School

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