Social worker who was part of CSDC’s Transit Programme team from 2018 to early 2026. Since 2012 she has worked in the state social service in Imereti.
From 2018 to early 2026 Lana Motsonelidze was a social worker in CSDC’s Transit Educational Programme. Since 2012 she has worked in the state social service in Imereti — first at the regional centre of the Social Service Agency, and since 2020 at the regional centre of the State Care Agency for Victims of Human Trafficking. In 2022–2025 she was a special education teacher in the integrated class of Kutaisi Public School No. 17. She also worked as a social worker at Save the Children (Baghdati district) and People in Need.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in German language and literature and a master’s degree in German studies from Akaki Tsereteli State University in Kutaisi, and studied at Heidelberg University on an exchange programme. In 2019 she completed a social work certification programme. She has completed trainings on working with children with disabilities, developmental disorders and challenging behaviour, as well as on group work with young people, responding to gender-based violence and procedural representation of minors.