Inge Snip has been living in and out of Georgia for the last 4,5 years, working for several NGO’s and having founded Evolutsia.net – a news and analysis website covering the political landscape of Georgia.

She is currently finishing a Master’s degree in Politics and International Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden, for which she did individual research on elite configuration at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Her Master’s thesis will focus on Georgia’s current cultural elite. This research will include sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s idea’s of capital – arguing that social, cultural and symbolic capital creates power within society, not only economical capital.