Ilona Parunakova, Motivational Speaker, God’s Masterpiece
Ilona Parunakova is a descendent of survivors of the Ottoman genocide against the Armenian people during WWI. Her great-great-grandparents were slaughtered before the eyes of her great-grandmother, who fled on foot as a child to escape. Ilona Parunakova witnessed the collapse of the Soviet Union and survived wartime in the Republic of Georgia immediately following, 1991-1993. Here’s what she has to say about her life I am a Third-culture kid, having grown up as half-Ukrainian (mother), half-Armenian (father), in the