Kevorkian was born in Aleppo, Syria and raised in Lebanon until her emigration to Canada in her late teens.
Kevorkian's family history and upbringing greatly influenced her work, resulting in a documentary about the Armenian genocide and the Lebanese Civil War entitled Anjar: Flowers, Goats and Heroes[3] as well as a hybrid documentary-drama film about her father's late-age Parkinson's-like disease entitled 23 Kilometres.
A few years later her family moved permanently to the small Lebanese village with a big Armenian presence, namely Anjar (Aanjar) in the fertile Bekaa Valley (Beqqa) region of eastern Lebanon.
Kevorkian's film Anjar: Flowers, Goats and Heroes depicts this idyllic time of her youth.
This inter-generational trauma has been well-established by medical/sociological research, and has informed her sense of identity, cultural pride, humanitarianism, and documentary storytelling / filmmaking.
Kevorkian went into self-exile to leave this violence and sought, in her late-teens, a new life as an immigrant to Canada.