Sotiris Sideris is the co-founder of AthensLive, the first English-language non-profit news outlet in Greece. Since June 2018, he has been working at the Network for Children’s Rights as the coordinator of Migratory Birds newspaper. Previously, Sotiris was producer and researcher for the national TV documentary series 28 Europe. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication & Media Studies from the Panteion University of Athens, and a Master’s degree in New Media & Digital Culture from the University of Amsterdam. In summer 2017, Sotiris was granted a scholarship from Stavros Niarchos Foundation to participate in Lede 12, a post-bac certification program on coding and data analysis from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and Department of Computer Science in New York.