Roxanne Makasdjian

Roxanne Makasdjian is executive director of The Genocide Education Project (GenEd), a non-profit organization providing educators with professional development services for teaching about human rights and genocide, with particular focus on the Armenian Genocide and its relationship to other genocides of the modern era. She also is a member of the California State Council for Holocaust and Genocide Education. A former national television news producer, Makasdjian serves as director of broadcast communications at UC Berkeley. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in journalism, for which she produced “Charles Garry: Streetfighter in the Courtroom” about the famed Armenian American civil rights attorney. The grandchild of Armenian Genocide survivors, Makasdjian was born and raised in Los Angeles and lives in San Francisco.