Shorena Latatia joined IWPR as a project coordinator in March 2011, before she authored numerous articles on social concerns and political developments. Growing up in the town of Senaki, she witnessed first hand the effects of the war in nearby Abkhazia in the early 1990s – relatives were killed and the family home was hit in a bombardment. While studying law at Tbilisi State University, she started working as a correspondent for a magazine called “Young Lawyer”. In 2008, she started working as a lawyer for the Human Rights Centre in Georgia; one of her roles was to provide free legal representation for displaced persons before the European Court of Human Rights, identifying victims of conflict and assessing their living conditions. She also wrote articles on legal and human rights matters for the humanrights.ge and humanrightshouse.org websites.