Anoush Baghdassarian

Anoush Baghdassarian is a Documentation and Advocacy Fellow at the University Network for Human Rights. She is a licensed attorney in New York and received her JD from Harvard Law School. As the Harvard Law School International Legal Studies Fellow, she served as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court.

Anoush received her M.A. in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University and holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in Psychology and Spanish with a sequence in Holocaust and Human Rights studies. She has served as an advisor to the Armenian Permanent Mission to the United Nations and as an intern at the Office of the Human Rights Defender in Yerevan, Armenia. 

Anoush’s strong interest in storytelling and history led her to co-found Rerooted (with Ani Schug), an organization that documents the Armenian diaspora in Syria. She is the author of FOUND, an historical fiction play about the Armenian Genocide, presented at several book events and produced for stage productions in New York and California. Anoush speaks English, Spanish and Armenian.