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240 David Agmashenebeli Alley
Tbilisi, T'bilisi
Georgia

Chabukiani Ballet

The Chabukiani Ballet is one of Georgia's leading schools for young performers.

Georgian Hand Shadow Theatre, (Budrugana Gargra)

Budrugana Gargra is a hand shadow performance group comprised of Georgian people displaced by conflict. Today they focus on performing for others facing similar challenges using interpretations of traditional stories.

Aleksandre Jejelava

Aleksandre (Sandro) Jejelava is the chairman, co-founder and lead trainer of the Management Academy in Tbilisi. He has over 18 years of management experience in many of Georgia's largest finance and information technology corporations.

Andrés José Cruz Torres

Andrés José Cruz Torres is a career educator and the director of the Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi. Before taking leadership roles in schools in Boston and Tbilisi, he taught theatre, history and art history in Europe and the United States.

Jonne Catshoek

Jonne Catshoek is a social entrepreneur who specialises in applying mobile technology solutions to the field of international development, and the founder and director of Elva Community Engagement. Jonne has supervised development and conflict management projects in ore than a dozen countries, and has overseen the establishment of Elva's country offices in Georgia, Indonesia and the Netherlands. He has carried out extensive research and field work for organisation including the International Crisis Group (Senegal), the Eurasia Foundation (Georgia), the Crisis Management Initiative (Brussels) and the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (The Netherlands).

Keti Zazanashvili

Keti Zazanashvili is a winner of "Georgia's Got Talent" and the president of the Georgian National Wheelchair Dance Sport Federation. Formerly a professional ballroom dancer, Keti and her dance partner won second place at the Kazakhstan Open, an international wheelchair dance competition.

Lasha Bakradze

Lasha Bakradze is a professor at Ilia State University of Tbilisi and the director of Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Literature. He has studied German literature, linguistics and theology in Germany and Georgia, covered international relations as a journalist, and headed the film preservation and archive department of the Georgian National Film Center.

Natalia Antelava

Natalia Antelava is an award-winning journalist and a co-founder of Coda Story, a web platform for covering crises. She started her career freelancing in West Africa but has since been BBC's resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and most recently India. She has reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan, and her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won a number of awards.

Natia Gvianishvili

Natia Gvianishvili is a program director at Women's Initiatives Supporting Group and a former board member of Identoba. She began to collaborate with Womens Initiatives Supporting Group as a volunteer in 2009 and became a member of the first Georgian LBT initiative group LBTika in 2010. She is also a founding member of the Independent Feminist Group.

Nick Davitashvili

Nick Davitashvili is a cybersecurity professional, educator and activist in Tbilisi's Guerilla Gardening movement. He has built and secured several computer networks in the Caucasus region and trained more than 200 students.