In the sweltering heat of August 2019, 16-year-old Alexander Balikian of San Diego had a life-changing experience. It began while he was participating in AGBU’s Discover Armenia program, a three-week long service-based excursion to Armenia for...

Sheila Kahyaoglu was hovering near a gate at Boston’s Logan Airport, keeping an eye on the board where her name was listed among standby passengers for a return flight to New York. On the taxi ride to the airport, she had already switched to two...

Looking at the impressive resume of Gevorg Abrahamian, Babson MBA, Harvard Business School Analytics Program graduate, and a senior director of product management at the global tech giant Oracle Corporation, one could reasonably assume he followed...

Nathalie Piranian, the current chair of AGBU London Young Professionals (YPs), cannot remember a time when she wasn’t involved with AGBU. Growing up in Lebanon, she was an AGBU summer camper for 10 years, and a camp instructor after that. She spent...

An alumnus of multiple AGBU programs during his formative years in Aleppo, Syria, Hratch Borghosizian sees his current leadership role in the Armenian community of UAE as a continuation of the AGBU values instilled in him since birth. He was...

Syria-born Mihran “Miro” Egavian has been a mover and shaker ever since childhood. Growing up, he lived in both the Middle East and North America, traveling between Aleppo and Montreal. Then he attended university in Ottawa, interned in Germany, and...

When a garden-dinner-dance in Los Angeles attracted almost 200 people to celebrate a school halfway across the world, Vahe Ekmekjian knew he was on to something. It was June 1989 and he had only been in the United States for three years when he and...

If cuisine is an advertisement for a nation’s culture, Aline Kamakian is Armenia’s Ambassador Extraordinaire. Chef and co-owner of Beirut’s renowned Armenian restaurant, Mayrig, Kamakian’s self-described mission is to celebrate and share Armenian...

A little more than a decade ago, success for a new restaurant in L.A.— the trendsetting capital of the world—depended on star-spotting, word-of-mouth, and one or two key local influencer’s favorable print reviews. Today, commanding diner attention...

As a successful attorney at Argentina’s Ministry of Agriculture, María Sol Torosian is recognized around the country for her dedicated legal work focused on forestry, protecting environmental rights while sustaining a robust agroindustry. When...

Born and raised in the vibrant Armenian community of Damascus, Syria, Lousin Balmanian moved to Vienna, Austria in 1992 to pursue her education in the life sciences. Today she works as the Quality Manager at Lemberona, a European purveyor of...

In 2016, Kevork Atamian saw a person in dire straits. He sprang to action and saved her life. Afterwards, he was honored not only by the Scouts du Canada federation of his AGBU Scouting troop, but also by represent-atives of the Canadian government.