KAY MOURADIAN, EdD

Dr. Mouradian is a retired Professor of Health and Physical Education from the Los Angeles Community Colleges. Her publications include Reflective Meditation, A Mind Calming Technique (Theosophical Pub. House 1982), A Guide for Those Teaching Yoga in the Community Colleges and a number of magazine articles.

Dr. Mouradian wrote her first novel, A Gift in the Sunlight: An Armenian Story after her mother’s remarkable recoveries from death's door prompted her to examine her own ancestral past. After working in various libraries and archives in the United States, Dr. Mouradian visited the village in Turkey where her mother and her mother’s family, along with 20,000 other Armenians, were forced to leave their homes. Traveling across the same deportation route to the deserts of Syria where more than a million perished in the Armenian Genocide, she became acutely aware of the suffering of her mother’s generation and the lingering sense of injustice they carried.

Dr. Mouradian, who has started a new career as a writer, hopes her novel will provide a platform for reconciliation through understanding and compassion.