J.P. is the founder and curator of the Queer Armenian Library and is the past President of the Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota. He serves as the Equity and Inclusion for Normandale Community College and previously served as the Chief Diversity Officer for Saint Paul College and as the Equity and Inclusion Education Manager for Rainbow Health Initiative. He is the co-founder of IDEAS, LLC whose mission is to advance equity and inclusion through individual coaching, professional development opportunities, as well as policy/program assessments.
Since 2015, J.P. has delivered keynotes and presentations at conferences throughout the Midwest on a variety of topics including: intercultural competency, LGBTQ health equity, racial equity, implicit biases, and culturally responsive organizations. He has published on, and edited publications about, the Minnesota LGBTQ Standards of Inclusion. His current writing projects include essays about Soghomon Tehlirian, Matthew Shepard, and a short story inspired by the poetry of Vahan Tekeyan. His essay The Words charts the founding of the Queer Armenian Library and will be published by the University of Texas Press in a forthcoming anthology of Armenian Diasporan.