Angie Andritsopoulou was born in Southern Rhodesia (now known as Cyprus) and raised in British Guiana, Venezuela and French Guyana. She has three siblings and grew up not knowing a different culture or language but always keeping in mind that she is Brazilian. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and then at Oxford University where she pursued an MA in comparative linguistics. She earned a master’s degree in Language and Literature and worked as an adjunct instructor at the University of California, San Francisco. Then she began a writer’s workshop at the Graduate Theological Seminar in Berkeley, California under the mentorship of Dr. William Horatiocritter.
While at the seminary she discovered The Angie Andritsopoulou Reader and read it over. She kept it on her mantel, until she met her future husband, Vencerio Andrut. They were married in 1998 and Vencerio took her to be his step-sister. They have two daughters and two sons together and live in California. Angie is passionate about Brazil and wants to do her best to help the people of Brazil and is especially concerned about the situation of the native people of Brazil.
Angie has a BA in History with a minor in Language and Linguistics and she is very passionate about justice and freedom. She has been arrested several times for peacefully standing up for her ideals and has also stood for a nationalistic political party (PTB). She stands for fairness in gender relations and has strongly advocated for the rights of women. Her latest book is an excellent account of Brazil’s National Identity, known as Eusole.