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Emily Avakian is currently based out of Charlottesville Virginia where she is a graduate student at the University of Virginia. She is a teacher who also works within the global community. In all of her work, she aims to honor her Parskahye Armenian Heritage and her tribal community as she is also a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She believes that creativity is the best way to honor one’s roots and truest self. Growing up she read the work of the late Maya Angelou religiously and to this day believes that poetry can save someone.