Savvina-Melina Papadaki was born in Thessaloniki. She obtained her middle-school diploma from the Greek-French School Kalamari of Thessaloniki and her high school diploma from the Shawnee Mission South High School in Kansas, USA. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Translation Studies from the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpretation of the Ionian University in Corfu. During her studies, she attended classes in the University of Strasbourg. She also obtained her MA degree in Conference Interpreting from the Joint Postgraduate Program of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a freelance translator and interpreter with Greek, English and French as her working languages.