Genocide education advocates to serve at panelists at ANC-WR event

October 13, 2011 - 13:18 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian National Committee – Western Region announced that the Genocide Education Project (GenEd), Dr. Kathy Fundukian-Thorossian, and genocide education advocate Shant Hagopian will serve as panelists in the ANC Grassroots workshop on activism through school and university curricula.

The workshop is part of the ANC Grassroots weekend that will take place from Friday, November 25 to Sunday, November 27, 2011, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel.

GenEd is a non-profit organization that provides educators the instructional materials, resources and educational workshops to teach about human rights and genocide – the Armenian Genocide, in particular. GenEd was founded by Raffi Momjian and ANC-WR activist Roxanne Makasdjian in 1997, when they determined the Armenian Genocide curriculum in California’s educational framework – available since the 1980’s – had not been properly implemented.

Momjian presently serves as the Executive Director of GenEd. He and GenEd education director Sara Cohan will be members on the educational advocacy panel discussing how activists can work with educators to implement lesson plans about the Armenian Genocide as part of history curricula in the junior high and high school levels.

Dr. Kathy Fundukian-Thorossian is currently the Assistant Superintendent of educational services for the Glendale Unified School District. She previously served as the principal of Glendale High School, from 2005 to 2008, and has more than 25 years of experience in education.

Shant Hagopian is a second-year law student at the Southwestern University School of Law. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, and an ANCA Leo Sarkisian Internship alumnus.

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