USC Policy Fellows on their first day at the City of Los Angeles Public Works building
LOS ANGELES—As part the Los Angeles—Yerevan Sister City relationship, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies has initiated the Policy Fellows Program, in collaboration with the office of Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian and the office of Armenia’s Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan.
The Program selects and places mid-career professionals from Armenia in policy planning positions throughout the City of Los Angeles to learn from and contribute to the process of improving lives in both cities. The first two fellows, Anna Aktaryan and Davit Shindyan, began their first day on September 20, the former in the Bureau of Engineering and the latter in the Department of Sanitation.
The USC Institute of Armenian Studies, the City of Los Angeles, and the Government of Armenia are working together to create a program, where “Armenian civil servants can work directly with a City agency or agencies, learn how their processes work, and study firsthand the mechanisms in place to create a successful and sustainable system of governance,â€
