Evelina Beknazaryan interned with PFA in summer 2011 through Terjenian-Thomas Assembly Internship Program. While at PFA, Evelina concentrated on research for a paper on Corruption and Governance problems in Armenia. Evelina’s research involved collecting and cataloguing data, including reports, cross country studies, surveys on current level of corruption and governance problems in Armenia and factors underlying these problems. Evelina also worked on the trend analysis of the data concerning basic biographical information of RA Parliament Members.  Evelina graduated from American University of Armenia with an MBA degree, majoring in Finance and Accounting, in 2011. Evelina resides in Yerevan, Armenia and currently works at the Grants Section of US Embassy in Yerevan. 