Marianna Achemian was born in Yerevan, Armenia. She has graduated from Yerevan public school #1, after which she was admitted to the Department of Arabic Studies at Yerevan State University which she graduated with Honors Diploma in 1998. She then immigrated to the United States where she started her family with her husband and two wonderful boys. During her career path she worked as a Marketing Director in one of the well know travel agencies in the Los Angeles Armenian Community, as an Administrative Assistant to the President of the American University of Armenia, and as a Realtor and Mortgage Loan Consultant at JohnHart Real Estate and Golden Coast Finance.”