Dr. Peter and Aphrodite Tsairis
Co-Founder @ The Alexia Foundation / Based in Long Island, New York
Dr. Peter and Aphrodite Tsairis founded the Alexia Foundation in 1991 in partnership with the Newhouse School at Syracuse University to honor their daughter, Alexia, who was a 20-year-old photography major there when she was killed in...
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Dr. Peter and Aphrodite Tsairis founded the Alexia Foundation in 1991 in partnership with the Newhouse School at Syracuse University to honor their daughter, Alexia, who was a 20-year-old photography major there when she was killed in the bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, as she was returning home from a semester abroad in London.
During 30 years of promoting photojournalism as a catalyst for change, world peace and understanding, the foundation has awarded over $1.7 million in grants to 170 student and professional photographers through annual competitions. In early 2021, the foundation became part of the Newhouse School and was renamed The Alexia.
In the fall of 2021, Bruce Strong was named the Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Studies at the Newhouse School. The Alexia is grateful for all the work of all of its past trustees, advisers, judges and supporters, and especially for its most recent trustees and advisory council, who served during the transition from the foundation to the university.
Aphrodite Thevos Tsairis
CO-FOUNDER
Mother of Alexia Tsairis A former teacher, editor and administrator, Aphrodite became a political activist following the terrorist attack that took the life of her daughter. As chair of the largest group of survivor families, she spent many days lobbying and testifying on Capitol Hill and traveling to Scotland, the Netherlands and Britain for high-level meetings seeking justice in what was then the largest American mass murder case in the skies.
Peter Tsairis, M.D.
CO-FOUNDER
Father of Alexia Tsairis Peter Tsairis is a retired attending neurologist and director emeritus of neurology at the Hospital for Special Surgery and an associate professor of clinical neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He is now a part-time neurology consultant in Morristown, New Jersey, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and has published extensively in the scientific literature.
During 30 years of promoting photojournalism as a catalyst for change, world peace and understanding, the foundation has awarded over $1.7 million in grants to 170 student and professional photographers through annual competitions. In early 2021, the foundation became part of the Newhouse School and was renamed The Alexia.
In the fall of 2021, Bruce Strong was named the Alexia Tsairis Chair for Documentary Studies at the Newhouse School. The Alexia is grateful for all the work of all of its past trustees, advisers, judges and supporters, and especially for its most recent trustees and advisory council, who served during the transition from the foundation to the university.
Aphrodite Thevos Tsairis
CO-FOUNDER
Mother of Alexia Tsairis A former teacher, editor and administrator, Aphrodite became a political activist following the terrorist attack that took the life of her daughter. As chair of the largest group of survivor families, she spent many days lobbying and testifying on Capitol Hill and traveling to Scotland, the Netherlands and Britain for high-level meetings seeking justice in what was then the largest American mass murder case in the skies.
Peter Tsairis, M.D.
CO-FOUNDER
Father of Alexia Tsairis Peter Tsairis is a retired attending neurologist and director emeritus of neurology at the Hospital for Special Surgery and an associate professor of clinical neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. He is now a part-time neurology consultant in Morristown, New Jersey, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and has published extensively in the scientific literature.