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...

Every winter without fail, young Armenian professionals come together on both coasts to work for the greater good. For the past 17 years, the AGBU Young Professionals of Northern California (YPNC) has gathered an enthusiastic group of Armenians 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...

An ambitious student at the AGBU Lazar Najarian-Calouste Gulbenkian school, Dr. Kalayjian participated in the Antranik Youth Association Scouts and sports leagues, making him a life-long member of AGBU. These early experiences inspired him to give...

Born, raised and educated in Los Angeles, Carin Kellzi, the current co-chair of AGBU Young Professionals of LA (YPLA), is a senior consultant at Deloitte, a multi-national professional services network and one of the “big four” accounting firms. She...

Micaela Ekserciyan and Alexis Koruk didn’t know each other prior to founding the Buenos Aires branch of the Global Leadership Program (GLP), formerly known as the AGBU Summer Internship Program. What brought them together was a connection to AGBU,...

Though an estimated 70 million people worldwide stutter, media representation of public figures with stutters is a drop in the ocean—with the rare exception of multi-talented Toronto-based comedian, activist, and motivational speaker Joze Piranian.

Datev Soulian was born in Syria, in the seaside city of Kessab, where his first exposure to AGBU was the summer camp. Later he moved to Lebanon where he attended the Armenian Theological Seminary, then the Hamazkayin Higher Institute for...

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...