EDUCATION

1998 – 2002 – Yerevan State University, Bachelor of Laws

2002 – 2004 – Qualification for a Public Servant, Public Administration Academy of the Republic of Armenia

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022 August to present – Senior Legal Counsel, Center for Law and Justice “Tatoyan” Foundation

2022 March to August – Expert in the framework of the “Analysis and Awareness Raising of Concluding Observations’ implementation by Armenia” project, implemented by the Eurasian Cooperation Foundation

2022 March to May – Project coordinator within the DATA Program in the Thematic Discussions’ activity framework, funded by USAID and implemented by the Eurasian Cooperation Foundation

2022 March to June – Lawyer of the “Improving the strategy of Municipality’s bodies for crisis management and public protection in Syunik ” project carried out together with “Journalists for the Future” NGO, Goris Press Club (GPC) and “”TSIATSAN” (“RAINBOW”) Leaders Education Center” NGO

2021 November – Expert of the project “Contributing to the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the creation of environment and ecosystem and promotion of rights of persons with disabilities in Armenia” jointly coordinated and funded by the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Population Fund, the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the United Nations Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD)

2021 June – Expert in the program “Support of families from Artsakh and monitoring of the access to protection services” of the Armenian branch of “World Vision International” international charity organization

2021 December – Expert of the project “For people displaced from Nagorno Karabakh as a result of the war” implemented with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Armenia

2020 June to August – Coordinator of the “Transparency International Anti-Corruption Center” project

2016-2022 February – Head of the Department for Protection of Civil, Social-Economical and Cultural Rights of the Office of Human Rights Defender of RA

2017-2018 – Member of the professional working group of public transport reforms of Yerevan

2015-2016 – Head of the Department of Protection of Rights on Individual Applications of the Office of Human Rights Defender of RA

2013-2015 – Deputy Head of the Department of Protection of Rights on Individual Applications of the Office of Human Rights Defender of RA

2012 – 2013 – Head of Unit for Restoration of Civil, Social-Economical and Cultural Rights of the Office of Human Rights Defender of RA

2011 – 2012 – A leading specialist of the Department of Civil and Political Rights of the Office of Human Rights Defender of RA

2010 – 2011 – Specialist of the Department of Restoration of Criminal Procedural Rights and Rights of Military Servicemen of the Office of Human Rights Defender of RA

OTHER

Certificate of Appreciation, Human Rights Defender of Armenia

Foreign Language(s): Russian, English and German 

Married, mother of two children