Anto Boghokian is a Los Angeles County Lifeguard who finds safety in writing
by Judy Shane
Anto Boghokian was 12 years old, visiting his grandparents in California, when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Though Armenian, he was raised in Lebanon, and Kuwait, and had been living in Kuwait. He couldn’t return.
It took him two decades to earn permanent residency in the U.S. During this time, he became a Los Angeles County Ocean Lifeguard, earned a masters in education, taught science and math in middle school, and became proficient in a fourth language. He also took up acting and writing..