Our Staff
The Armenian Weekly is powered by a small team, made up of a full-time editorial staff, designers, columnists, interns and contributors. In a world in which genuine community journalism from alternative media sources is increasingly hard to come by, we are deeply grateful to all those who contribute their time, energy and money to making this publication possible.
Weekly Staff
Lilly Torosyan
Lilly Torosyan is editor of the Armenian Weekly and a member of the Armenian Nutmegger community. (That’s Connecticut nutmegs by way of Sasun walnuts). Her writing focuses on the confluence…
Pauline Getzoyan
Pauline Getzoyan is the former editor of the Armenian Weekly and an active member of the Rhode Island Armenian community. A longtime member of the Providence ARF and ARS, she…
Nanar Avedessian
Nanar Avedessian is a Syrian Armenian, who graduated with a master’s degree in public relations from Emerson College. She moved to Armenia in 2014, where she pursued her BA in…
Columnists
Stepan Piligian
Stepan Piligian was raised in the Armenian community of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, at the St. Gregory Parish. A former member of the AYF Central Executive, he is active in the…
Harut Sassounian
Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has…
Garen Yegparian
Garen Yegparian is a fat, bald guy who has too much to say and do for his own good. So, you know he loves mouthing off weekly about anything he…
Yeghia Tashjian
Yeghia Tashjian is the Issam Fares Institute Public Policy and International Affairs-American University of Beirut’s Regional and International Affairs Cluster Coordinator. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and…
Melody Seraydarian
Melody Seraydarian is a journalist and undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, pursuing a degree in Media Studies with a concentration in media, law and policy. Her column,…
Milena Baghdasaryan
Milena Baghdasaryan is a graduate from UWC Changshu China. Since the age of 11, she has been writing articles for a local newspaper named Kanch ('Call'). At the age of…
Victoria Atamian Waterman
Victoria Atamian Waterman is a writer born in Rhode Island. Growing up in an immigrant, bilingual, multi-generational home with survivors of the Armenian Genocide has shaped the storyteller she has…
Jason Takhtadjian
Jason Takhtadjian is an evening reporter at CBS47/KSEE24 in Fresno, California. Takhtadjian began college pursuing mechanical engineering with a focus on aerospace until deciding to pursue a sports broadcast career…