FLEX and YLP Alumni Initiate a Model U.S. Senate Platform
After returning home, FLEX alumni are always looking for ways to give back to their communities by sharing their knowledge and experience from their...
Exchanges To Entrepreneurship Mentoring Program (eTEMP) Creating Jobs and Connections in Armenia
FLEX alumna Lousine Stepanyan ’06 took charge and opened the DC Development Center for Languages and Skills Training. Yelena Mouradyan’s ‘04 dreams of opening a family and kid-friendly...
FLEX Alumni Armenia Mentoring Program: Successes of Azniv Tadevosyan ’13 (Gyumri)
Azniv Tadevosyan '13
Gyumri, Armenia/Visalia, CA
Mentee of the FLEX Alumni Armenia Mentoring Program
FLEX Alumni Armenia Mentoring program started in the summer of 2015. It is...
Supplies Drive for Needy Families
In Gyumri, Armenia on September 12, ten alumni in collaboration with Gyumri Education Fund collected goods for local families in need. City Rep Hasmik...
Eleven Years of Service: FLEX Alumni Participation in Global Youth Service Day
The 2015 Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) celebrations marked the eleventh anniversary of FLEX alumni organizing service projects in their communities alongside youth worldwide...
Christmas in America for Lida Asilyan ’19
Lida Asilyan ’19 (Ijevan, Armenia/Adel, IA) spent her FLEX year in a small town in Iowa. In this interview, Lida shares her relationship with...
International Experience Starts with the Stepanavan Youth Center (SYC)
I can say that my graduate studies through the Muskie program and my brother’s through the FLEX program influenced us in more ways than...
Pavillion of Fluttering Butterflies, 48 Poems
Sona Karapetyan ‘05
Kapan, Armenia/Colorado Springs, CO
sona richardson gmail com
Pavillion of Fluttering Butterflies, 48 Poems
Inspired by the birth of her baby girl,...
Alumni Networking Events in January
Peace Corps Alumni Networking Event
Peace Corps Alumni Networking Event was held in Baku on January 27. The U.S. Embassy and the Peace Corps office organized the second...
FLEX-Ability IV
The fourth annual South Caucasus FLEX-Ability Workshop was held on February 14-17, in Tbilisi, Georgia. Fifty-four alumni from Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan gathered together...













