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Nika Nasrashvili

Nika Nasrashvili earned his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in International Relations at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). His research interests include information and communication technologies (ICTs), democracy, foreign policy and security issues.

Eto Gagunashvili

Eto Gagunashvili holds a BA in Sociology from Tbilisi State University. Currently she is pursuing a Master’s degree in Sociology at the same university. Prior to joining CRRC as a Junior Fellow, Eto worked in marketing and communications. She has also participated in a number of research projects and programs.

Nino Mzhavanadze

Nino is on the final stage of her Master’s degree in sociology at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree from Tbilisi State University in the same field. Since February 2016, she has been a Junior Fellow at CRRC-Georgia. Prior to joining CRRC-Georgia as a Junior Fellow, she was involved as a local supervisor in the 2014 General Population Census for National Statistics Office of Georgia. She also has additional sociological research experience. Her research interests are mainly related to social and cultural issues.

Zachary Fabos

Zachary completed his BA in International Studies at Roosevelt University and MS in Anthropology at Illinois State University. He previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Georgia. He was a recent Collaborative Heritage Management Fellow with the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC), working in the Georgian region of Kakheti on cultural preservation practices. His research interests include; heritage, memory, transformations of place and space, and their impact on identity and cultural expression in the Caucasus.

Zack Weiss

Zack holds a B.A. from Colorado College with a double major in Political Science and Russian and Eurasian Studies, and a focus on American relations with Russia. Prior to joining CRRC, Zack completed a semester of his bachelor’s degree in Tbilisi studying post-Soviet politics and the Russian language. He has also conducted research in Kyrgyzstan, Albania, and Montenegro on their domestic politics and foreign relations. His interests include public policy, foreign aid, and diplomacy.

Olivia Route

A graduate of UPenn (BA) and Oxford (MSc), Olivia has recently worked for organizations such as People in Need and the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Armenia and a Luce Scholar in Thailand and is excited to dive into Caucasus-related data with CRRC. Her research interests include migration and identity, minority groups, nationalism, and conflict transformation processes.

Sasha Slobodov

Sasha is completing her MA in European, Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining CRRC, Sasha worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy in Canada, a Research Assistant in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and as an English instructor in Spain. She received her BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia and spent one year abroad studying European Studies at Sciences Po Lyon. Her current research interests include energy geopolitics, civil society and the transition to renewable energy, with a broad regional focus on the South Caucasus, Central Asia and Russia. She speaks English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Julia Xavier

Julia is completing her master’s degree in European and Russian Affairs at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, where she holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Council Scholarship. Previously, she obtained an Honors Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction at the University of Toronto, having mastered in History and Women and Gender Studies. Her interests include the impact of gender on policy making and the forms of resistance utilized by women in protesting against gendered discrimination. A native English speaker, Julia also has intermediate Russian language skills.

Junior Fellowship