NAASR Hires Sarah Ignatius as First Executive Director

After 60 years of leadership in Armenian studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) has hired its first executive director, Sarah B. Ignatius, who will start the first of the year at its headquarters in Belmont, Mass.

Ignatius, a lawyer, has served on NAASR’s Board of Directors since 2014 and as a member of its Executive Committee as treasurer. “This is a major change in the history of NAASR to appoint an executive director,” said Raffi P. Yeghiayan, chairman of NAASR’s Board of Directors. “We are taking this step due to NAASR’s significant growth and expanded activities over the last several years, both locally and nationally. We have full confidence that NAASR will continue its growth with the vision of a professionally qualified executive director.”