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Athena Mari Asklipiadis, was born and raised in Leimert Park, Los Angeles and holds a broadcasting degree from Pepperdine University. While pursuing a career in radio and voice over, Athena also worked writing and podcasting on mixed/hapa websites. After recognizing a lack of mixed and minority bone marrow donors, she started Mixed Marrow in 2009 and most recently worked as associate producer on award-winning documentary film, Mixed Match (2016) which chronicles the journeys of patients in need of a marrow match. Athena now works in marrow recruitment at A3M (Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches) as the recruitment manager and as a freelance writer. She still lends her spare time to organizations, Multiracial Americans of Southern California and Mixed Marrow, serving on their boards.
Updated December 2019