Aram Suren Hamparian (born April 18, 1966) is an

Armenian American Armenian Americans () are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in Russia. The first major wave of Armenian immig ...

public activist who is the executive director of

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. As ANCA Executive Director, Hamparian serves as the organization's national point-person with the Administration,

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, the media, and the Washington, DC foreign policy community. In cooperation with Eastern and Western U.S. regional offices, more than 60 local chapters, dozens of coalition partners, hundreds of community affiliates, and thousands of grassroots activists, he works on a broad range of legislative, policy, research, political, campaign, media, coalition, and community-related concerns. Hamparian has testified before Congress, lectured at the

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, the

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, and

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, been quoted by ''

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, and has appeared on

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American activists American people of Armenian descent Living people 1966 births {{US-activist-stub

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