Anahit Misak Kasparian[2] (/kəˈspæriən/; born July 7, 1986)[3] is an American Independent[1] political commentator, media host, and journalist.

She formerly hosted The Point on the TYT Network and co-hosted a Jacobin YouTube show, Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila.

[12] Kasparian graduated from Valley Alternative Magnet High School of Van Nuys in 2004[13] and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism.

[14][15] After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Journalism (BAJ) from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), she became an assistant producer with CBS Radio news stations in Los Angeles, first with KFWB and then KNX.

[19] After filling in as host in April 2007, Kasparian became the producer and co-host with Cenk Uygur of the progressive show The Young Turks.

[14] She posits that young people are interested in news, but "they see network anchors as simply folks who read tele-prompters."

[20] Kasparian and her co-host Uygur applied a populist left branding strategy that made TYT a successful global online organization, with larger numbers of YouTube subscribers than several other notable news networks like CNN.

TYT University then turned into a show called Think Tank debuting on January 1, 2015, with different hosts and different topics but aimed at the same demographic.

She also is a weekly host on the Jacobin YouTube show Weekends, formerly co-hosted by Michael Brooks until his sudden death in July 2020.

[26][27][28] Kasparian became a lecturer (i.e. instructor) at California State University, Northridge and began teaching journalism in August 2013.

Cenk Uygur... did just this...[34]In 2016, Kasparian became involved in an exchange over the name with members of the Armenian Youth Federation during an appearance at California State University, Northridge.

[35][36] A 2018 Playboy article by Art Tavana on the name dispute accused Kasparian of "complicity" in what he called "genocide denial".

[46] In an early December interview with conservative commentator Glenn Beck on The Blaze network, Kasparian lambasted Democrats over immigration issues and credited Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott with raising her awareness about the migrant crisis.