Christopher Atamian graduated from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the ETH in Zurich before obtaining an MBA at Columbia University. He is a producer and writer living in New York City, and is currently finishing his first novel and producing two feature films.

David Stephen Calonne is the author of William Saroyan: My Real Work Is Being. His most recent book is The Colossus of Armenia: G. I. Gurdjieff and Henry Miller. He has recently completed editing and translating a book of interviews with Charles Bukowski. He has taught English and Armenian studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He presently teaches at Wayne State University.

Elizabeth F. Defeis is Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law. She assisted the Republic of Armenia in drafting its constitution upon a request from the United States Information Agency and an invitation from the government of Armenia. In January 1996 she chaired the OSCE mission to Armenia to provide technical assistance with respect to elections. She was also the legal expert for the OSCE in the 1998 presidential elections.

George Levon Melikian received his Masters in Public Health from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, specializing in infectious disease epidemiology. He is currently Ehrlichiosis Surveillance Coordinator at the Emerging Infections Program at the Yale School of Medicine.

Stephanie Platz is the Alex Manoogian Assistant Professor of Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation is titled, Pasts and Futures: Space, History, and Armenian Identity, 1988–1994.