December 30, 2021
Show’s guest, Ms. Elen Asatryan.
On this week’s Armenian Assembly of America Radio Hour, host Mihran Toumajan welcomes Ms. Elen Asatryan, a community organizer, award-winning human rights and social justice advocate, an elected Member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee (in Assembly District 43), current delegate of the Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC) of the CA Democratic Party, and founder and CEO of a full-service public affairs consulting firm known as The Stark Group.
In 2021, Ms. Asatryan authored and spearheaded several resolutions, which were successfully passed by the Los Angeles County Democratic Party and the California Democratic Party respectively, which called for sanctions on and divestment from Turkey and Azerbaijan, in addition to full enforcement of Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act, and immediate action for the safe release and repatriation of Armenian POWs unlawfully held by Azerbaijan.
An alumna of UCLA, where she studied Political Science with concentrations in American Politics and International Relations, Ms. Asatryan recently declared her candidacy for a seat on the City Council of the City of Glendale, California.