Joanna Vasiloglou

What started as AIS’s first-ever blood drive turned into something much bigger: a major success with the power to save lives across Atlanta. Thanks to the incredible turnout from students, teachers, parents, faculty, and staff, the blood drive exceeded its goal by an impressive 178%. Altogether, the AIS community donated 41 pints of blood, more than 5 gallons, enough to potentially save up to 123 lives. Even more impressively, the event was completely planned by students in collaboration with...

What if your right to vote, pursue an education, or build a career could be quietly reframed as optional, or even wrong, beneath a soft filtered video of sourdough bread and smiling domesticity? ​ It sounds dystopian, but in recent years, online communities promoting the “trad wife” (which references the ter m “traditional wife”) aesthetic have increasingly overlapped with a broader surge in ultra-conservative media, from viral TikTok creators to long-form podcasts with millions of listeners,...

How are the 11th graders finding the DP and what advice do they have? For our juniors, this month marked a quiet but significant milestone: we are officially halfway through 11th grade, and already a quarter of the way through the IB Diploma Programme! It sounds dramatic, but it’s true. For sophomores choosing classes and for the rest of the school watching from the sidelines, DP can feel like a looming storm cloud of acronyms, summatives, and whispered warnings about sleep deprivation. So...