Software Engineering Graduate Program Coordinator/School Quality Management Manager

Tamta Tvalaavdze is a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at NED, Fall 2021, Washington DC, the U.S. She earned her MA degree in multimedia journalism and media management from GIPA  and BA  degree in journalism and mass communications from Tbilisi State University. She has over ten years of production experience  in media and  is a freelancer  journalist and producer   in the Caucasus Region. Has experience working with several media organizations in various  positions: media monitor at the Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics, author of  short documentary films.  Tvalavadze cooperates with France 24, Radio Sweden, New Yorker, National Geographic Georgia, IWPR (Institute War and Peace Reporting). 

In 2018, She co-founded multimedia outlet “Clickmedia”, which aims to provide an independent perspective on current events through innovative forms of storytelling. She is involved in coordinating and developing academic programs at Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management( CSJMM)

Awards / Festivals:

• Film Funding from Georgina National Film Center ( GFNC) for Feature length

documentary Film Project - 'Requiem to Hot days of Summer / Producer, 2021

• Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at NED, Fall 2021, Washington DC, the U.S.
• Winner of the Contest “ Youth Development aRights -2013 “, organized by The United Nations Population Fund in Georgia ( UNPRA). Nomination Best Article –Boys Choose technical faculties and Girls- humanitarian:
• Winner of the media competition by “Internews Georgia” for implementing cross-border projects in Ukraine, Moldova, Serbia and Georgia 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
• Doc Leipzig, “ Requiem to Hot days of Summer “ / Producer,
• Trieste Film Festival, “ Requiem to Hot days of Summer” / Producer,
• Sarajevo Film Festival, “ Requiem to Hot days of Summer” / Producer,
• Baltic to Black Sea Documentary Network, Kiev, Ukraine,, 2020