Living on opposite points of the globe, Sara Anjargolian is a Yerevan and Los Angeles based photographer, writer and attorney.

Born in London to parents of Iranian-Armenian and Iraqi-Armenian descent, Sara spent the first six years of her life in Tehran . With the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s, Sara’s family immigrated to the United States , settling in Los Angeles , California .

Sara graduated summa cum laude from the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA) with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Policy. She then went on to law school and received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California , Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law . After admission to the California Bar, Sara joined the Justice Department in Washington , D.C. where she served as a trial lawyer.

Unable to ignore the call of her ancestral homeland, Sara won a Fulbright scholarship in 2002 to live and work in Armenia . Sara joined Bars Media, a documentary film studio based in Yerevan , where she wrote, produced and directed several documentaries on contemporary issues facing Armenia today.

Traveling extensively throughout the region, Sara chronicled the lives of Armenians through her photography and writing. Sara also taught courses at the American University of Armenia Law Department, where she later served as Assistant Dean and Associate Professor. Sara’s area of specialty and research within the legal sphere is on the status of women in Armenia and their changing roles in today’s transitional society – a subject about which she has written and spoken extensively in the U.S. and Armenia .

This website includes Sara Anjargolian’s photography and writing from Armenia and beyond, as well as information about her written and spoken work.

Sara currently resides in Los Angeles where she serves as a policy advisor and deputy city attorney with Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo’s office.