Nikolia Apostolou is an independent filmmaker and multimedia-journalist currently sharing her time between Kalamata and Athens, Greece. For the last decade, she has been writing, doing video, and producing documentaries based out of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey for more than 100 media outlets, like BBC, The Associated Press, AJ+, The New York Times, The New Humanitarian, PBS, USA Today, Deutsche Welle, Al-Jazeera, De Correspondent, Dutch Public TV, The Economist, Newsweek, Hakai Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Berlin Policy Journal, Solomon Magazine, Global Post, and many others. Nikolia has participated in cross-border projects and is now teaching at the University of Athens and the Masters in Media and Refugee Flows. Nikolia earned her Master’s Degree in Digital Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and her Bachelor’s Degree at Panteion University, in Athens, Greece majoring in journalism. She’s lived in Lesbos, Istanbul, Riyadh, and New York.