Guests of Groong Podcast

Hakob Hakobyan

Hakob Hakobyan is the co-chair of the Artsakh Justice Party.

Հակոբ Հակոբյան, Արցախի Արդարություն Կուսակցություն նախագահ:

Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian, who is the Chairman of the board of trustees of HyelD. He’s also the publisher of The California Courier newspaper, and the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization which has delivered over one $1.06 Billion in humanitarian assistance to Armenia and Artsakh since 1989.

Hayk Mamijanyan

Hayk Mamijanyan is the leader of the oppositional Pativ Unem (With Honor) alliance in the Armenian National Assembly, and a member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA). He’s also a member of the parliamentary group representing Armenia at the PACE, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Heghnar Watenpaugh

Prof. Heghnar Watenpaugh teaches Art and Architecture at the University of California, Davis, and is a board member of Save Armenian Monuments

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan, writer, documentary filmmaker, publicist, co-founder of Eye for an Eye (Akn Und Akan), a community of documentarians. Hovhannes has a Master’s in journalism from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.

Hrant Mikaelian

Hrant Mikaelian, a political scientist and multidisciplinary researcher in social sciences based in Yerevan. He is also a senior researcher at the Caucasus Institute. Hrant is a co-founder of the Armenian Project.

Isabel Bayrakdarian

Isabel Bayrakdarian who is a mother, singer, teacher, poet, artist, storyteller, collaborator, believer… Not your average prima donna!

Ivan Katchanovski

Ivan Katchanovski is a Ukrainian and Canadian political scientist and professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He held academic positions at Harvard University, the State University of New York at Potsdam, the University of Toronto, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include 5 books, 21 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and 13 book chapters. His publications, interviews, and comments appeared in more than 3,500 media reports in over 80 countries.

James W. Carden

James W. Carden is a columnist and former adviser to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the U.S. Department of State. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications including The Nation, The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, The National Interest, The Los Angeles Times, and more.