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Meghedi Melody Nazarian was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and was very engaged in the Armenian community growing up. After graduating from the University of San Francisco with a bachelor’s degree in Communications and Journalism, she started her career as a fashion writer for popular online women’s blog network, POPSUGAR, and has since worked with major fashion companies like Paige Denim and Stitch Fix. Before heading to Armenia in 2015, she lived in Los Angeles.

Kurdish leader and the former mayor of Diyarbakir, principal Kurdish town in Turkey.

Mr Mehmet Polatel is a historian focussing on late Ottoman history and early Turkish republic. He has conducted research on the fate of Armenian property in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey. Currently he is a PhD student at Bogaziçi University and a research assistant at the History Department of Koç University in Istanbul.

Mehruss Jon Ahi is an architectural designer, real estate developer, graphic artist, and the co-founder and creative director of the online publication Interiors.