Het Omilo-team en leerkrachten Grieks

Konstantinos Oikonomou | Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμου

Full-time teacher at Omilo since 2005.
He was born and raised on the island of Crete.

Konstantinos is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Philosophy and holds a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics (University of Essex, UK). He has taught Modern Greek as a foreign language at the Hellenic Centre in London as well as at other educational institutions in the British capital. In addition to teaching, he is involved in developing course materials and guiding new teachers. Since 2007 he has been an oral examiner for the Examination for the Certificate of Attainment in Greek, organized by the Center for the Greek Language. He speaks English.

Konstantinos (and Marina Braila),  are the authors of the Greek Language book Φύγαμε για ελληνικά! (Off we go to learn Greek!), intended for foreign students of Modern Greek who are at an intermediate language level, as well as for the Advanced Workbooks.
Konstantinos and Terpsi Gavala, are the authors of the Greek Easy Reader Lydia: A summer in Greece!  

Myrto Yfanti | Μυρτώ Υφαντή

Full-time teacher at Omilo since 2021.

She was born in Lamia and grew up in the village of Giannitsou, in the prefecture of Fthiotida. She now lives in Athens.
Myrto graduated from the School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), majoring in Linguistics. She holds a Master’s Degree in Teaching Greek as a second/ foreign language (NKUA). Myrto has also experience in teaching Greek for the GYP TAMAM program (Language Support for refugee mothers), and for other online schools. She loves the multicultural environment and foreign languages. She was an Erasmus student in Sweden and speaks English, Swedish, Italian and German. In addition to teaching, she loves communication and creativity.
Therefor she helps with marketing, creating educational teaching materials, eBooks, as well as Youtube videos.
(and also helps with  language videos for the Omilo youtube channel.)
Together with Maya, she is responsible for the Easy Greek Podcasts Stories + notebooks.

Ruben Doorslaer | Ρούμπεν  Δορσλαρ

Part-time teacher  since 2024.

Ruben now lives in Athens, but grew up on the island of Evia. He has a Greek mother and Belgian father, and is bilingual Greek-Dutch.
He studied  History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, Greece, and did an extra master in Arts and Culture at the University of Ghent, Belgium. After gaining his master’s degree, Ruben has worked  as a high school teacher and volunteered in various archaeological projects in Greece and Cyprus. At the same time, he started teaching History as well as Ancient and Modern Greek to foreigners. He also speaks English, French and some Spanish. He has a great passion for music, plays the saxophone and loves traveling.

Eva Christodoulou | Εύα Χριστοδούλου

Part time teacher at OMILO since 2018.
She was born and raised in Athens.

Eva studied Greek Classic Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. After obtaining her degree, she continued with theatrical studies in Drama School in Athens. In addition to teaching Modern Greek as a foreign language to adults, she has experience in teaching Ancient Greek, History and Latin to high school students. From 2015 till today she also works during the winter and spring as an actress in theater, as well as for TV-productions. She holds a Master’s Degree in “Drama and Performing Arts in Education and lifelong learning”. She has also worked as a Tour Leader in various places in Greece. Apart from teaching, Eva helps Omilo with making language videos for the Omilo YouTube channel,   as well as reading several Podcast stories. During the intensive courses, she helps with the extra cultural activities during the afternoons. She speaks English and Spanish (and studied Korean for two years). She loves arts, traveling, singing, Greek dancing and Flamenco.

Vasso Loi | Βάσω Λόη

Part-time teacher since 2014.

Vasso (βασιλική) was born in Athens, and lives in centre Athens. She is a graduate of the School of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology at the University of Athens . She is a very experienced teacher, and regularly teaches for Omilo in the Athens courses taking place in Maroussi. Apart from group courses, she teaches a lot of private lessons and for companies, as well as online. She speaks fluently English and a bit of French.

Myrto Myrtzani | Μυρτώ Μυρτζανή

Part-time teacher since 2024.

Myrto was born and raised in Athens, though she has family roots in Lemnos and Preveza. She holds a degree in Philology with a major in Linguistics from the Faculty of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Continuing her academic journey, she completed a Master’s in “Teaching Greek as a Second/Foreign Language”. In addition to her academic work, Myrto participated in the GYP TaMam program (Language Support for Refugees – Mothers’ Classes) , offering voluntary lessons to refugee women.  Myrto has further training in Intercultural Education and has primarily worked as an online educator, teaching Greek via platforms like Skype and Zoom. She is fluent in English. She enjoys connecting with people from around the world, sharing both the Greek language and the rich culture of Greece.

Christina Ioannou

Part-time freelance Administrative Assistant 
She was born & raised in Greece, by a Dutch mother and Greek father.

Administrative Assistant for various projects at Omilo.  She speaks Greek, English, and a bit of Dutch