Raffi is in his third and final year of the Master of Fine Arts program at American University, and couldn’t be more passionate for nonfiction filmmaking. He previously earned two B.A.s — Film & Video Studies and English — at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He has interned with the General Services Administration, the National Wildlife Federation, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, WETA (Washington, D.C.’s PBS station), and currently Conservation International.