Ursula Kazarian worked as a project developer in Tbilisi, Georgia and later as the Country Director for the Armenian office of the Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) in Yerevan, where she specialized in public awareness programming for urgent environmental issues pertaining to public health, human rights, and democracy-building. In the U.S. Ms. Kazarian has several years of experience working for water utility conservation programs and in environmental consulting on federal energy programs. She holds a B.A. in International Relations, with an International Environmental Resources concentration, from the Elliott School at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She holds an M.A. in International Relations from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. and an M.A. in Sustainable Development and Natural Resource Management from the United Nations mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. Ms. Kazarian is currently a dual Juris Doctor/Licenciatura en Derecho candidate at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain. In 2007 Ms Kazarian launched the Armenian Environmental Network, which will join in 2008 with the PFA structure to disseminate Armenian environmental information and promote activism.