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Network in 1997. The Task Force since became a resource for the entire Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. From 2001 to 2004 Demetrios served as board member of Chicago’s Alexian Brothers’ Bonaventure House, a residential care facility for people living with HIV/AIDS. In August 2005 he was honored with the Alexian Brothers AIDS Ministry 2005 President’s Award.
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Demetrios works for justice and humanity in the prison system. He has served as a board member and past two-term
President (2003–2005) of the Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and received the coalition’s Cunningham-Carey Award in 2007. He has spoken and written extensively in
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support of abolition of the death penalty and has advocated extensively for individual death row inmates. Having met with the Illinois Governor on several occasions on the subject of
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