Araksya karapetyan biography of abraham lincoln

Armenian-born American television personality and anchor woman

Araksya Karapetyan (Armenian: Արաքսյա Կարապետյան; born August 27, 1982)^[1] is an Armenian-born American television personality and anchor woman for the Los Angeles–based KTTV FOX11's Good Day L.A.^[2]

Early life

Karapetyan was born on August 27, 1982,^[1] in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri (then called Leninakan).

She witnessed the 1988 Armenian earthquake that left her native city devastated.^[5] In an article written following a March 17, 2014, earthquake in Los Angeles, Karapetyan wrote: "Every time we get a shaker here in Southern California I quickly have a flashback to my childhood.

I was 6-years old in 1988 when a devastating earthquake hit my hometown in Gyumri."^[6] Meanwhile, the ethnic conflict with Azerbaijan intensified as the Soviet Union was on its way to collapse. Due to these hardships her family emigrated to the United St