Meet Edit

Dr. Edit Khachatryan is an educator, researcher, and community advocate running for Glendale Community College Board of Trustees (Area 2) because she believes community colleges should be places where every student has real opportunities to learn and thrive.

Born in Armenia, Edit immigrated to Glendale at the age of nine and attended Columbus Elementary, Toll Middle School, and Hoover High School. Growing up in a community shaped by immigrant families and diverse cultures, she saw firsthand how public education can open doors to the American Dream—creating pathways to stability, opportunity, and upward mobility. Glendale’s schools and community institutions played a central role in her own journey and shaped her lifelong commitment to expanding opportunity for today’s students.

Edit began her career as a high school teacher in Los Angeles and Glendale, teaching history, government, and economics. In the classroom, she experienced both the transformative power of strong teaching and supportive systems, and the ways in which systemic barriers can limit student success. These experiences deepened her commitment to strengthening public education, particularly for students who have been historically underserved.

To better understand how systems can improve outcomes at scale, Edit served as a Teaching Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan, bringing educator voice into federal policy conversations. She later earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where her research focused on teaching quality, professional learning, and leadership development.

For over a decade, Edit has worked nationally with schools, districts, and colleges through the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. This work contributed to the creation of Carnegie Math Pathways — now housed at WestEd — which applied improvement science to significantly improve outcomes for community college students in remedial mathematics.

More recently, Edit founded Sovoroom, a consulting firm that supports nonprofits, universities, and school districts in building their capacity to lead meaningful educational improvement.

Edit holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, two master’s degrees, and teaching and administrative credentials from UCLA. She is also a parent of two children attending the GCC Child Development Center lab school, giving her a firsthand understanding of the importance of strong, transparent, and accountable public institutions. She brings a collaborative, data-informed approach grounded in listening to those closest to the challenges we seek to solve.