Season 1, Episode 15: Victoria Melkonyan

Join Jaina Alexander and April Sigman-Marx as they enjoy a cup of tea with… Victoria Melkonyan. There are new announcements, positions, and goals set out for this new year. Welcome 2021 with your friends Jaina, April, and Vic!

Victoria Melkonyan is a West Asian (Middle Eastern) artist based in both Sacramento and Long Beach. Through the lens of actor, director, and writer, Victoria actively pursues, uplifts, and creates stories for and by those in othered groups. They are an alumnus of California State University, Long Beach with a BA in Theatre Performance and have also studied with the SITI Company. Through both their art and activism, they hope to increase visibility for SWANA and all who are absent from the mainstream in various performance/storytelling mediums. They are very excited by the awakenings happening currently between the masses and hope to aid in bringing a sense of revolution and radicalization to the spaces they occupy.