Sandra Siraganian Appointed to Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee

 

Sandra Siraganian is the newest member of the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee formed to establish and maintain a memorial in Pasadena that will commemorate the Armenian Genocide and condemn all crimes against humanity.

Approved by the City Council in September 2013, the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial will be completed and dedicated at Memorial Park in April 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the killing of 1.5 million Armenians over a three-year period beginning in 1915.

Born in Pasadena, Siraganian lives in Sierra Madre with her three children and is a realtor with Sotheby’s International Realty.

She has been a community volunteer in Sierra Madre and Pasadena for several years, serving on the Don Benito Elementary School PTA, Pasadena Unified School District School/City/ Community Work Plan Team, Sierra Madre Little League Board of Directors and Maranatha High School Booster Club Board of Directors and Fundraising Committee.

Siraganian joins six other members of the Pasadena Armenian Genocide Memorial Committee: Sgt. Greg Ashfarian of the Pasadena Police Department; David Gevorkyan, former municipal employee with the cities of Pasadena, Sierra Madre and West Hollywood; Bernard K. Melekian, former Pasadena Police Chief and former director of the federal Office of Community Oriented Policing Services; William M. Paparian, Attorney at Law and former mayor of Pasadena; Anthony Portantino, former member of the California State Assembly representing the San Gabriel Valley; and Shoghig Yepremian, president of Yepremian Consulting Inc.

For more information visit www.PASAGMC.org or PASAGMC on Facebook.