Katerina was born and raised in Heraklion, Crete. She is a graduate of the Department of Philology at the University of Crete, specializing in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies. From 2006 to today, she has been working as a Greek language teacher in the private sector. Specifically, she has worked at the Laboratory of Intercultural and Migration Studies (EDIAMME) of the Department of Primary Education at the University of Crete (for the education of Greeks living abroad). She has worked for many years in private educational institutions in Rethymno as an instructor of the Greek language for foreign students and adults. For the past three years, she has been an oral examiner (for the production of spoken language) in the Greek Language Certification exams at a certified examination center in Heraklion. In addition, she is a certified instructor of Greek as a foreign language by the Centre for the Greek Language. She is particularly interested in the coexistence and interaction between different languages and cultures. For this reason, she has attended seminars on intercultural education both in Greece and across Europe. “Language and thought are not ‘natural’ inherent attributes of humans… Human beings learned them — they taught them to themselves.” (Sophocles, tragic poet and playwright)