Eleni Takou is a Senior Policy and Research Officer at the Mediterranean Migration and Asylum Policy Hub & a Research Fellow of the Social Change Initiative. Eleni is an expert on migration and hate crime, anti-racist advocacy and strategic communication. She has been Co-founder and Deputy Director of HumanRights360; she has also worked in the Advocacy and Programs sector of several NGOs, including the Hellenic League for Human Rights and SolidarityNow. During 2015-2016, she has served as Chief of Staff of the Minister for Migration Policy. Prior to this, she has been coordinating the Racist Violence Recording Network, a coalition of CSOs under the auspices of UNHCR Office in Greece and the Greek National Commission for Human Rights; she has also been a consultant on issues of statelessness for UNHCR in Greece. She is co-writer of the book Immigration in Greece. Eleven myths and more facts, published by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, and co-editor of XthemOut: The Black Map of Racist Violence (Topos editions).