Salome Mikadze (B’22), who graduated from georgetownmcdonough this past weekend, runs a creative software development agency based in Lviv, Ukraine.
She co-founded the company her freshman year while at Georgetown with her Ukrainian business partner. She has since grown Movadex to 30 employees, providing design and software development services to businesses all over the world.
Since February 24, when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Mikadze has leveraged her company to make a social impact for good. Together with her team, she has helped 100 families evacuate from war zones; coordinated supply chain efforts for body armor and medical supplies; and hired five team members from displaced regions.
Mikadze had not been back to the Hilltop in two and a half years. Not since the COVID-19 pandemic sent her and her classmates home her sophomore year, not since the war in Ukraine kept her studying in bomb shelters in Lviv. She returned to the Hilltop just weeks ago ahead of...