Lilah Raptopoulos

Freelance Journalist

Lilah Raptopoulos is a freelance journalist. She is a graduate of New York University's Studio 20 masters program in digital innovation.

Lilah Raptopoulos is a London-based journalist whose goal is to simplify and humanize the news. She is a graduate of New York University's Studio 20 masters program in digital innovation.

A child (L) eats crackers at a migrants make-shift camp in a park in central Athens, Greece July 24, 2015.

Greek activists mobilize on social media to help migrants when the government doesn’t

Over the past two weeks, a team of activists has been collecting food, water, first aid and toys for the Afghan refugees in a central park in Athens. They mobilize on Twitter, using the hashtags #pedion_areos, #refugeesGR, and, most recently, #refugeesGR_SOS.

Greek activists mobilize on social media to help migrants when the government doesn’t
Mayor of Thessaloniki Yannis Boutaris poses after an interview with Reuters inside the townhall of Thessaloniki in northern Greece November 7, 2012.

If you think living in Greece in an age of austerity is tough, try running one of its cities

If you think living in Greece in an age of austerity is tough, try running one of its cities