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Olivia Route

23 October, 2023

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.

A graduate of UPenn (BA) and Oxford (MSc), Olivia has recently worked for organizations such...

Zack Weiss

23 October, 2023

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.

Zack holds a B.A. from Colorado College with a double major in Political Science and...

Zachary Fabos

23 October, 2023

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.

Zachary completed his BA in International Studies at Roosevelt University and MS in Anthropology at...

Annika Kastetter

23 October, 2023

Annika holds a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Colorado College. She has worked on grassroots-level development and humanitarian aid projects in India and Jordan, and obtained domestic policy experience with the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, where she served as an intern in the Office of International Labor Affairs. After completing her undergraduate degree in May 2017, Annika served as an intern for UNDP Georgia's Governance Reform Fund project.

Annika holds a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations from Colorado...

Tamar Gzirishvili

22 October, 2023

Tamar has a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Clark University and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration at Tbilisi State University and the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. As a part of her BA curriculum, she spent a semester studying Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University.

Prior to joining CRRC as a Junior Fellow, Tamar worked as a researcher at Transparency International Georgia, where her main projects included National Integrity System assessment and Open Budget Survey. Her research interests include conflict transformation, identity issues, and nationalism studies.

Tamar has a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from Clark University...

Maia Komakhidze

22 October, 2023

Maya graduated from Tbilisi State University with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. In 2009, she took part in an exchange program to study at Creekside High School in the USA, and in 2013, she won a scholarship to study in the Czech Republic at Charles University in Prague.

Prior to joining the CRRC team as a Junior Fellow, Maya worked at FactCheck Georgia as a project assistant and grants officer. Her research interests include public policy in developing countries, social and political transformations in post-soviet countries, civic engagement, and international institutions and global governance.

Maya graduated from Tbilisi State University with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations. In 2009,...

Mariam Londaridze

22 October, 2023

Mariam Londaridze earned a BA in Economics with a minor in Business Administration from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2014.

Before joining CRRC as a Junior Fellow, she regularly contributed to the biweekly newsletters reviewing key economic processes in Georgia at Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG). In addition, she was involved in the marketing research at a private IT distributor company. Her research interests are mainly related to economic and social issues.

Mariam Londaridze earned a BA in Economics with a minor in Business Administration from Ivane...

Mari Mekhrishvili

22 October, 2023

Mari Mekhrishvili holds a BA in business administration from Østfold University College, where she spent the final year of her bachelor’s studies after completing three years of study at Tbilisi State University, majoring in Economics.

Before joining the CRRC’s Junior Fellowship Program, she worked as an assistant researcher at GeoWel Research, where she was involved in conducting desk research and processing interviews on a range of economic and social issues. Her research interests relate to economic and social development with a focus on minority issues.

Mari Mekhrishvili holds a BA in business administration from Østfold University College, where she spent...

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