Soula Parassidis has appeared at leading opera and concert venues worldwide, including Berlin Philharmonie, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Prague Rudolfinum, Oper Leipzig, Festival Aix-en-Provence, Theater an der Wien, Opéra Nationale de Bordeaux, Guangzhou Opera, Taipei Symphony, and many others.

A passionate advocate for the operatic art form and the singers who inhabit the stage, in 2019 Soula founded the online platform Living Opera. Living Opera is a community initiative spanning 4 continents that strives to inform, equip, and empower singers about the realities of the business of opera. Living Opera has worked with various organizations including Medici TV (Paris), Reload Greece (London), Florida State University, Houston Grand Opera Studio, and Northland, Orlando.

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The Next Generation Initiative (Currently Inactive)

Former Co-founder and Executive Director

National Small Business Association

National Sales Representative

American Hellenic Educational Progessive Association

Director of Membership

Integration Technologies Group, Inc

Business Development Director

American Hellenic Institute Business Network

Founder and Executive Director

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Membership Marketing Manager

Republican National Committee

Assistant Fundraising Coordinator, The Presidential Trust

American Hellenic Institute, Inc.

Executive Director

Leon Stavrou is a Co-founder and former Executive Director of the Next Generation Initiative, a Washington, DC-based educational foundation that promotes public service and mentors young leaders.

Mr. Stavrou is well-known as the founder of the AHI Business Network, the first international network for young professionals and business leaders in the global Greek community.  In addition, to his work with the AHI Business Network and his service as the Director of Membership and Development for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association.  He has also served as a national sales representative for the National Small Business Association, a manager in the high tech industry, and regional marketing director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

He originally joined the American Hellenic Institute in 1974, where his leading role in a nationwide grassroots efforts to introduce and pass legislation in the U.S. Congress during the Cyprus crisis led him to become the first registered Greek American lobbyist.  He went on to work for the Republican National Committee during the Reagan Administration.

Mr. Stavrou first came to Washington, DC as a staff aide to the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

Infamous for nearly being killed in the Plaka in Athens during an act of civil disobedience against the Greek junta, he was featured along with many of his friends in "The Greek Americans, " a documentary which aired on PBS throughout the U.S. in December 1998.

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