Sara Anjargolian was born in London, grew up in California, and has lived and worked in Armenia for over 12 years. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Policy and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Berkeley Law School.
During her legal career in the U.S. she served as trial lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and Deputy City Attorney/Policy Advisor to the Los Angeles City Attorney. Anjargolian co-founded Impact Hub Yerevan in 2014 and served as its CEO for over 5 years until joining the Republic of Armenia's post-Velvet revolution government in 2019.
She also served on the Impact Hub Global Board of Directors for several years. Anjargolian’s tenure in Armenia has included a Fulbright scholarship, lecturing at the American University of Armenia, and working as a multimedia journalist focused on social impact projects. Anjargolian is the former Head of Office/Chief of Staff at the Republic of Armenia’s Office of the High Commissioner for Diaspora Affairs within the Prime Minister's Office.
This website represents Anjargolian’s body of work through 2014 while she was working as a multimedia journalist and focused on visual storytelling projects. She regularly partnered with non-profit organizations and philanthropists to raise awareness on critical social and human rights issues.
Her photography has been recognized and supported by the United Nations, Open Society Foundations, Fulbright, UCLA School of Art & Architecture (Make Art / Stop AIDS), Photophilanthropy, Fotoevidence, the Tufenkian Foundation, and the Yerevan Press Association. Her body of work has been exhibited widely and most recently includes stories such as: non-combat deaths in Armenia's military, life on the front lines in Nagorno-Karabakh, refugee life along the Azerbaijani border, HIV/TB among the Zulu people in South Africa, “How We Live” a photography installation, book and film documenting poverty in Armenia, “Not Here” a project focusing on labor migration from Armenia to Los Angeles, and, “Zenne Dancer” a feature film in Turkey about the honor killing of a gay man by his father (still photographer).