Mariam has graduated from the School of Governance of the Caucasus University in Tbilisi with a Bachelor of Public Administration. Between 2014 and 2019 she studied at two different universities as an exchange programme – the Uniwersytet Warszawski (Warsaw University) in Poland and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (Radboud University of Nijmegen) in The Netherlands. In 2018 Mariam was appointed as a Young European Ambassador and has since been actively involved in promoting European values in the youth community. After a year, in 2019, she joined the “Mayors for Economic Growth” EU initiative as a Junior Expert and assisted the Local Authorities of Georgian Municipalities in elaborating the Local Economic Development Plans. In the framework of the EU projects Mariam conducted two different research projects to identify to what extent the Culture and Creative Industries (CCI) sector is integrated into local development plans and what development challenges are faced by the local representatives of the CCI sector. In addition, Mariam is carrying out several projects in Georgian cities related to urban development, and she studies cities as a complex cultural phenomenon.