Meet the Team
CYA’s alumni relations and development staff serve as your link to CYA. We look forward to working with alumni, friends and supporters of CYA to establish a strong community. Please do not hesitate to reach out.
Erica Huffman
Director of Alumni Relations
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Erica Huffman (CYA ’93) is a native of Portland, OR, and graduated from Whitman College with a degree in History. She has traveled to Australia, Fiji, American Samoa, Turkey, throughout Europe and the former USSR and has lived abroad in New Zealand, Guatemala, and Athens. She joined CYA staff in Athens in 1997 and later transferred to the North American Office where she has held several positions. As Director of Alumni Relations she is responsible for overseeing CYA’s alumni program, which includes updating and tracking alumni information and organizing alumni events.
Vassilis (Billy) Simopoulos
Development Officer
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Vassilis (Billy) Simopoulos was born and raised in Athens, Greece, but holds dual citizenship in Greece and the United States. He received a BA degree in Communication from the University of Southern California and a Master of Liberal Arts degree in Government from Harvard University. His professional interests focused in various service and non-profit organizations in the public as well as in the private sector when he served in the Hellenic Government first as a Special Advisor to the Secretary-General for Lifelong Learning and afterward as Head of Communications at the General Secretariat for Youth. In 2015 he returned to the private sector where he served as Project Manager for the non-profits Lascaris foundation and HOPEgenesis NPO.