Our Team

Owen Lombardi

President / Director

Nino Abralava

GALA Program Director / Director

Luka Unapkoshvili

Marketing Consultant / Director

Owen Lombardi

Owen Lombardi is our Academic Director, a master teacher with dual undergraduate degrees in History and Secondary Education from Rutgers University, and a masters degree in Counseling Psychology from Naropa University.

He has taught 9th and 11th graders in Piscataway, New Jersey, and Santa Fe New Mexico, as well as adults in graduate psychology and a variety of other adult learning programs, both in-person and online, in the US and internationally.

Nino Abralava

Prof. Dr. Nino Abralava is the head of the European Language Institute and represents the USLA in Georgia. She served as a Director of the Foreign Language Center and a Head of the Academic Department at the State Medical University of Georgia between 2015-2022. She was a full Professor at the Academy of the Ministry of Interior of Georgia in 2015-2018. She was a full professor and a Head of the department of German Philology at the University of Georgia in 2007 to 2015. She is the author of numerous textbooks and scientific publications, including publications published in Germany on the ongoing reforms of Georgian education and language policy.

Prof. Nino Abralava is the organizer of several international conferences and editor of the contributions to the international conferences. To date, she has received around 20 training and international scientific grants for educational projects.

Prof. Abralava has many years of pedagogical and scientific experience in Georgia and abroad, including in the field of educational management. She is the scientific expert of numerous research projects and has supervised dissertations in Georgia and Germany. She completed her master's thesis at the University of Saarbrücken. She also worked on her doctoral thesis at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

Luka Unapkoshvili

Luka is an entrepreneur launching an art and fashion design company. His projects include animated feature film creations using the Unreal Engine developer platform. He is a consultant for corporate presentations and marketing projects.