About us | Mexoxo

WHO WE ARE

Mexoxo is a non-profit organization that supports women to achieve their full potential. Believing that education is the tool for growth and change, Mexoxo encourages, enables and facilitates women’s active involvement in business, employment, learning, and community.

OUR HISTORY

The Mexoxo journey started in 2013 in Tijuana Mexico, when Elpida Kokkota, Founder & CEO, made the brave decision to do what she loved and leave behind the Bostonian lifestyle.

The action was fired up by Professor Nobel Laureate M. Yunus, who mentored her vision to help women to achieve socio-economic growth. Two women in Mexico became Mexoxo's first beneficiaries. Commencing Mexoxo's impact they open the road to 500 more women to become entrepreneurs.

Two years later, Elpida officially pledged a commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to empower and educate 5,000 women by 2020. The mission was fulfilled in 16 countries at the end of 2019.

Mexoxo was nominated by the National Greek Delegation to represent Greece, for the first time in its history, for the "UNESCO Prize for Women's and Girls Education 2020". During its 9 years of operation Mexoxo has achieved to support 27,300+ women directly and 109,200+ women indirectly.

WHAT WE DO

Our vision to unleash every woman’s potential can only be achieved by addressing the following crucial needs that constitute key barriers for their socio-economic growth and their emergence from vulnerable situations such as:

Lack of Education

Unemployment

Financial Instability

Lack of educational and employment opportunities due to the geographical boundaries and human characteristics

Lack of a gender-specific support network in the professional sphere

Mexoxo team together with our Academia, Governmental, Corporate, and local NGO partners bring collective change to:

Unleash every woman’s potential anywhere at any time.

Together we inspire, aspire, enrich women's capacity, education and network, to lead their lives with freedom, independence, economic stability and thus, become capable to neutralize any type of discrimination. Empowering women is a clear path to influence real change and equal long-term wealth on a global scale.

HOW WE DO IT

MEET

We enable women to meet mentors, opinion leaders and other women to collaborate and grow their economic capacity. Women become the force of each other.

MASTER

We offer online education from top academic institutions. Women can attend experts' lectures from around the world, test their knowledge through interactive quizzes and acquired educational certifications that will help them master their careers and their entrepreneurial journeys.

MANIFEST

We help women to manifest and discover their self-power, build resilience to keep walking towards achieving their dreams and feel the assurance that they can succeed. Dedicated videos, lectures from role models and assessment tests leads them in their empowerment journey.

WHO WE SUPPORT

ENTREPRENEURS

We support female entrepreneurs, to enhance their business capabilities with the goal to increase their income, create jobs, and achieve socio-economic growth.

CAREER

We support young talented women to improve and enhance their performance and be well prepared for future challenges and choices in their career path.

VULNERABLE

We support women in societies where social norms and values are biased in favor of men. They are deprived of many privileges such as rights, education, healthcare, parental property rights, and social status.

TEEN

We support teenage girls to build confidence, discover their talents, and envision their future by teaching them entrepreneurship, leadership, and soft skills.

LGBTQI+

We support the LGBTQI+ community and we become their ally to ensure they experience diversity & inclusion in their career paths and workplaces.

OUR TEAM

Elpida
Kokkota

Founder and CEO

Maria Manioudaki

Communications & Sponsorships Director

Phivos
Ragos

Legal Advisor

Penny
Skarpeta

CEP

Aggeliki
Galani

Community Manager

Nancy
Kaimaki

CFO

Dimitra
Pantou

Administration Coordinator

Stavroula Zervoulakou

COO

Christina
Iliou

ICT Manager

Sofia Kounoupaki

Marketing Executive

Mariangela Chatziantoniou

Creative Manager

ADVISORS

Yannis Tsakalos

Strategic Advisor AQ Strategy

Fotis Rigas

CEO Executive Level

Spyros Syrmakesis

Professor Electrician and Computer Engineering Department,

University of Peloponnese

Henric Totterman

Creative Leadership Advisor, LEADx3M,

Hult International Business School, Harvard

Julie Mouquet

European Cooperation Project Officer

MEXOXO WOMEN

Diana Voutyrakou

Sometimes to make a big or a life-changing decision you need encouragement, support, someone to believe in you -even if you do not- and motivates you to try harder. This is what Mexoxo is for me, namely hope and empowerment.

Betty Biah

I got to know Mexoxo through Mrs. Ria Rutland who introduced me to Elpida and Penny so I can request their help regarding my University tuition fees. Since 2018, Mexoxo has been funding my education. I feel blessed for my all adopted mothers.

Zeta Gkeka

When starting your own business, would you like to have a team of experts to consult you, support you, give you opportunities and treat you as a friend? This is Mexoxo! Thank you for everything!

Dina Lagiou

My relationship with Mexoxo is karmic. They changed my way of thinking…Today I dare to live, create and follow my wildest dream to run a restaurant business on a mountaintop. Mexoxo helped me to stand up to my power and with a humble attitude and dedicated work to say that I made it! I am successful!

Maureen Sarah Daniel

When the Mexoxo program was announced I didn’t hesitate, I jumped on it because I wanted to have more skills and to be different. I am grateful for the #BreakYourCeiling session and Elpida, which encouraged me and motivated me to make the most of my everyday life. I really experienced love. I am a single mother from Nairobi, Kenya and I graduated while I was working and studying at night. I just want to encourage people out there that they should never limit themselves. They can do it no matter the challenges, just have a positive mindset, work and look at the reward ahead. I am now happy and proud of myself and even my friends are really impressed with my development and they do admire my evolution. Α big thank you to Mexoxo and Elpida for this wonderful opportunity given to me. Τhank you for giving to us the less privileged, the chance for education and helping us in fulfilling our dreams and making it come true.

Sarmila Tapa

My relationship with Mexoxo started in 2015. Together we have been in New York, Los Angeles, Athens, Sifnos, and Nepal inspiring women to claim their power and become socio-economically independed.

Elena Foka

My goal for 2022 was to Work in Tech, and that's why I joined the Women In Tech program. I knew it would be difficult to start because I didn't have any idea how it works. Thanks to Mexoxo, I learned that working in tech doesn't mean only writing code instead, it means working in technical support, STEM education, consulting, or marketing. With the IT Certification, I made a step closer to my goal, but the only limit was in my mind and to break the ceiling. To surround myself with women power and determined to work for my dream.

It was the reason that recently, I joined a tech requirement start-up company with offices in Amsterdam and Greece. My role there is Tech Resourcing Consultant and the HR manager told me, he appreciates that I have a recent certification in the IT field, and that made me stand out.

I am very happy to have been working there and I think I have many chances for the career path I am dreaming of.

Thank you Mexoxo, for this opportunity, especially Elpida and Aggeliki cause there I found that my limits are not determined by the fact that I am a woman.

Vasiliki Tsima - Marianna Kouroupi

Vasiliki:
Mexoxo was the reason I met Marianna, my new friend in my life, and I am truly grateful for that and also connecting with various personalities and being part of the circle of impact of Mexoxo. I was impressed when we met in an online scheduled team meeting. I was impressed by her courage and her energy to do a lot of things at the same time and I was admiring her for all the things she had accomplished so far. She is very supportive and refuses to give up. I know that she has limitless capabilities and never gives up and I'm looking forward to what the future brings her and I know she's always there for me when I need her.

Marianna:
I am glad that through an educational program of Mexoxo I met Vasiliki. She is a great person, and I am so happy I had the chance to meet her and “share vibes” as we like to say. She is there when I need her and she helps me stay focused on my goals. Vasiliki helped me go through hard times and she is the one that gave me the push I needed to decide to take a ten month long seminar on Business Administration. She is a vibrant person, full of energy and joy and she was always with a big smile on her face.

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ALIGNMENT

Mexoxo’s activities and programs of impact are in alignment with the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.