Moderated by Trity Pourbahrami, the panel entitled Navigating Zoroastrian Parenthood, will discuss the challenges and opportunities of raising children in North America.  The panelists will share their unique approaches to balancing school, children’s extra curricular activities, the demands of their career, religious education, and involvement with the Zoroastrian community.  The main objective for this panel is to engage Zoroastrian families with young children to be more active in the community by creating a forum for them to learn from each other.

Trity Pourbahrami is the Director of Communications for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Division of Engineering and Applied Science and the Editor of the award winning publication ENGenious.  She has Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Physiology and Masters degrees in Social Welfare and Public Administration.   She is also a certified mediator and facilitator.

Trity and her husband, Peter, live in South Pasadena, California with their two young daughters Neeku and Meena.   The family is active in the Iranian and Zoroastrian communities, where Peter and the girls are taking Persian Language (Farsi) classes and Trity is teaching the Gathas.

Trity was eleven years old when her family immigrated to Canada and succeeded to leave the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as the Iran-Iraq war.  As a young adult she was very engaged in the local and international Zoroastrian community including serving as a President of the Zoroastrian Youth of North America (1997-1999).

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