Araksya Karapetyan (Armenian: Արաքսյա Կարապետյան; born August 27, 1982)[1] is an Armenian-born American television personality and anchor woman for the Los Angeles–based KTTV FOX11's Good Day L.A.[2] Karapetyan was born on August 27, 1982,[1] in Armenia's second largest city of Gyumri (then called Leninakan).
She witnessed the 1988 Armenian earthquake that left her native city devastated.
[5] In an article written following a March 17, 2014, earthquake in Los Angeles, Karapetyan wrote: "Every time we get a shaker here in Southern California I quickly have a flashback to my childhood.
[2] She graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in international relations and broadcast journalism.
[2] Karapetyan began her television career as an intern at KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KFI 640 AM radio in Burbank, California.