LETTERS READ INCUBATOR XX: Armen Merjian
From LETTERS READ by Nancy Sharon Collins
June 5, 2026 · 35 min · Season 10 · Episode 3
About this episode
This episode features Armen Merjian, a prominent civil rights attorney and activist in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
This segment in our tenth anniversary season, is about Armen Merjian, a stellar example of the 2026 Letters Read theme, “What Activates Activists?” Merjian is amongst this country’s leading civil rights attorneys and perhaps the most important legal activist in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Armen Merjian has been fighting the good fight against civil rights discrimination largely his entire career. He’s the real deal, a civil rights hero. The backstory of his activism is in the section about his family in this podcast and is the clip at the beginning of the April 13, 2026 podcast.
People in this episode
Host: Nancy Sharon Collins
Guest: Armen Merjian
Topics covered
- civil rights
- activism
- HIV/AIDS
- legal advocacy
- discrimination
Keywords
- civil rights
- activism
- HIV/AIDS
- Armen Merjian
- discrimination
- legal activist
- Letters Read
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