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ATLANTA, GA, – The Genocide Education Project participated in the annual National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference held this year in Atlanta, GA from November 13-15. As an exhibitor at the conference, The Genocide Education Project provided educational resources and guidance to history teachers gathered from across the United States for the top educational gathering of their field for secondary school educators.

Throughout the two-day event, Executive Director, Raffi Momjian and Education Director, Sara Cohan spoke one-on-one with individual teachers, advising them on how to incorporate the Armenian Genocide into their classroom curriculum. Assisting the effort was Suzanne Aivazian Cohan, a former public school teacher and counselor, who was able to provide teachers with her unique and valuable insight as a child of a genocide survivor. The Genocide Education Project, which participated in the conference for the seventh consecutive year, provided approximately one thousand high school and middle-school teachers with classroom resources on the Armenian Genocide. Many school district supervisors, school administrators, and college professors also attended the conference.

Keynote speakers included Emory University Jewish Studies professor Deborah E. Lipstadt, who writes extensively on Holocaust denial and has also written about the Armenian Genocide. Lipstadt spoke about her experiences as a defendant in a liable trial in England against the infamous Holocaust denier, David Irving. Throughout her lecture she spoke of the importance of fighting genocide denial, including the Armenian Genocide. She sent a strong message to teachers regarding the need to combat denial of the Armenian Genocide through education, prompting additional educators to seek out resources from The Genocide Education Project.