Board of Trustees Clerk

Dr. Edit Khachatryan

As a Trustee representing Area 2, Dr. Edit Khachatryan is committed to ensuring that GCC continues to serve as an engine of opportunity by helping students build career pathways, transfer to four-year universities, and achieve economic mobility. She brings a collaborative, data-informed approach grounded in listening to students, educators, and the community, with a particular focus on expanding opportunity for first-generation and immigrant students like herself.

Born in Armenia, Dr. Khachatryan came to Glendale with her family at age nine and attended Columbus Elementary, Toll Middle School, and Hoover High School in the Glendale Unified School District. She began her career as a high school teacher in Los Angeles and Glendale, teaching history, government, and economics, where she saw firsthand both the power of strong teaching and the challenges students face when systems fall short. This experience shaped her lifelong commitment to improving public education for historically underserved students.

Dr. Khachatryan went on to serve as a Teaching Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan, bringing educator perspective into federal policy discussions. That experience led her to pursue a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University, where she studied teaching quality, professional learning, and leadership development.

She has since worked nationally with schools, districts, and colleges through the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, contributing to initiatives such as Carnegie Math Pathways, now housed at WestEd, which used improvement science to significantly increase success rates for community college students in remedial math. More recently, Dr. Khachatryan founded Sovoroom, where she partners with nonprofits, universities, and school systems to build capacity for continuous improvement, helping leaders translate ideas into measurable results for students.

Dr. Khachatryan resides in Glendale with her husband and two young children. Both of her children are enrolled at the GCC Child Development Center lab school, giving her a firsthand understanding of the importance of strong, transparent, and accountable public institutions for families in the community.

Dr. Khachatryan's present term is June 2026 – June 2030.