A monument at California State University Sonoma honoring the survivors and victims of genocides and hate crimes now bears the name of Agos Armenian weekly's founder, Hrant Dink, alongside the names of peace activists and visionaries such as Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Albert Einstein, Vaclav Havel and Pete Seeger. Hrant Dink's name was added in March thanks to the sponsorship of Armenian organizations in California, which financed a memorial "brick" in Dink's honor.

Dink's widow Rakel Dink visited the monument during a September 28-October 6 trip to the U.S., where she was hosted by Mgrditch Melkonyan, pastor of the First Armenian Presbyterian Church of Fresno, California.