Ani Duzdabanyan is an Armenian-American journalist based in Los Angeles, California. Her early career was in investigative journalism as part of a project investigating the violations of children rights in orphanages and specialised schools in Armenia. She continued her career in news, where she covered information technology, economy and agriculture.
When Ani moved to the United States in 2007, she became a correspondent for newspapers in Armenia writing stories about the Armenian community in Los Angeles. She has also collaborated with Hayrenadarz.org, a project documenting personal experiences, memoirs and events of Armenian expatriates in Soviet Union and Diaspora during the Great Repatriation in the 1930s and 1940s who later immigrated to the United States.
Ani is contributing to local and national publications such as Los Angeles Times, EaterLA, L.A. Parent’s Magazine, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, Mirror-Spectator and others covering the life of diverse communities in LA through food and wine.
In 2016 Ani Duzdabanyan received the Woman in Journalism Award by the Armenian-American Chamber of Commerce.
