Teacher and psychologist, early development specialist. In 2021–2025 she was a life skills trainer and coordinator in CSDC’s Transit Programme.
Ia Kashia studied pedagogy and psychology at the Kutaisi Institute of Arts and Pedagogy. In 2021–2025 she was a life skills trainer and coordinator in CSDC’s Transit Educational Programme for homeless children. She had worked in the transit programme before: in 2016 she was a special education teacher at World Vision Georgia. In 2014–2025 she worked as an early development specialist at the Kutaisi social rehabilitation and development centre “Tairisi”.
Since 2013 she has taught civic education and “Me and Society” at Kutaisi Public School No. 36, where she also leads the civic education club and student self-government. In 2011–2015 she was the school’s inclusive education coordinator. Before that she spent ten years as the psychologist of Kutaisi Public School No. 7.
She has completed a 130-hour course in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and training in early childhood intervention, a 120-hour professional development course for special education teachers, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s training of trainers “Me and Society”. She took part in UNICEF trainings for second-chance education programmes.