Ruzana Hedges

Ruzana Hedges joined OSI-Baltimore as a program associate for the Tackling Drug Addiction Program and the National Drug Addiction Treatment and Harm Reduction Program. Hedges is originally from the country of Georgia where she worked as a program coordinator for the International Research and Exchanges Board and as a gender specialist/community facilitator for the Women’s Regional Center, a regional project of United Nations Development Program. After relocating to the United States in 2006, Hedges worked for the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at the University of Virginia and later joined the National CASA as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Hedges holds a BA in English and Georgian language and literature and is currently pursuing her graduate studies in development management within the International Development Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She is expected to graduate in the summer of 2011. She lives in Columbia, Maryland, with her husband and their two-year-old son.