She was born in 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts, to an Armenian-American father, Allan, a lawyer, and an Irish-American mother, Betty.
Her knowledge of her Armenian heritage came from reading magazines and newspapers that she found at her grandparents' home.
Languages : English, Arabic From 2006 to 2008 she covered Senator Barack Obama's campaign for President of the United States, and was the only independent journalist to follow him from the run-up to his announcing his candidacy through his victory on election night.
Tufankjian took six years and traveled to five different continents gathering stories and photos of the Armenian people who were killed and displaced from their homes by the Ottoman government between 1915 and 1923.
In showing how the Armenian people survived, Tufankjian's photos capture everyday life, from religious to the romantic to the familial.