Kristina Tremonti

Kristina Tremonti
Born May 12, 1990
Vail, Colorado, United States
Residence Greece, Athens
Alma mater Yale University
Occupation Founder of I Paid A Bribe Greece
Website Website

Kristina Tremonti is a Greek American Social entrepreneur and the Founder of I Paid a Bribe Greece, a non-profit social enterprise that gives citizens the power to report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency and values of corrupt acts of bribery on the social platform.

Background

Kristina was born on May 12, 1990, in Vail, Colorado.[1]

I Paid a Bribe Greece

In 2012 the website EdosaFakelaki.org was created for Greek citizens to anonymously report the payment of fakelaki (lit.: "little envelope"), under the table bribes. The site received over 1,000 reports in its first month of operation.[2] The website was inspired after its founder, Kristina Tremonti, was forced to pay a fakelaki on behalf of her 90-year-old grandfather, a war veteran with terminal cancer, who was left waiting for hours in the emergency room of a public hospital.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kristina Tremonti's Guardian News author profile
  2. ↑ Greeks fight back against corruption BBC News
  3. ↑ Greek people can change this system of bribery by Kristina Tremonti in The Guardian, Nov 13, 2012
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