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Maria Armoudian
Doug Becker
Ankine Aghassian
Melissa Chiprin
Tim Page
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About Maria Armoudian

Maria Armoudian is the author of two books, Reporting from the Danger Zone: Frontline Journalists, Their Jobs and an Increasingly Perilous Future and Kill the Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World. She is a lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, the host and producer of the syndicated radio program, The Scholars’ Circle. Maria served as an environmental commissioner for the City of Los Angeles for five years, on the Board of Taxi Cab Commissioners for two and worked on environmental protection, government oversight, poverty reduction, civil rights, and corporate reform legislation for the California State Legislature for eight years, Her articles have been published by the Columbia Journalism Review, New York Times Syndicate and the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, The New Zealand Herald, the Los Angeles Daily News, Grist, the Progressive, Salon.com, Truthout, Alternet, Inc., Daily Variety, and Billboard. She also a songwriter & musician. Her CD is called Life in the New World. here.

Recent Interviews

Scholars’ Circle – COP29 , its outcome and looking ahead – December 1, 2024
Scholars’ Circle – Moldova Election 2024 – November 24, 2024
Scholars’ Circle – Abortion/reproductive rights & access post presidential election – November 17, 2024
Scholars’ Circle – Insights on 2nd Trump Presidency – November 10, 2024
Scholars’ Circle – LGBTQ communities and their impact on global politics – November 3, 2024

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