Kathleen Gasparian Fights for the Rights of Immigrant Kids

Karine Armen (Kurkjian) is a freelance photographer. She has an M.A. in educational administration from California State University, and a B.A. in photography and social work, from the University of Maryland. She has had several photography exhibitions in the Los Angeles area. Her work has been published in AIM (Armenian International Magazine), Ararat Quarterly, The Guardian, and the Glendale News-Press. Currently, she is an elementary school teacher at the Glendale Unified School District. Karine attended two photography treks: Portugal (October 1999) and China (October 2000). She is fluent in English, Armenian, Farsi, and Spanish. Karine’s first poems were in Armenian and Farsi. Since May 2005 she started writing poems in English. Recently she edited, translated, wrote the commentary, and published her mother’s self-help book Inner Heaven.