Maka Berulava is a Research Analyst at the Andrei Sakharov Center for Democratic Development Research, where she works primarily with archives. She holds a BA in International Politics and Development from Vytautas the Great University (Kaunas, Lithuania) and an MA in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics from University College London (UCL, UK). She is currently pursuing a second Master's degree in Future Media and Journalism at Vytautas the Great University.

From 2022-2023, Maka served as the Young Ambassador of Georgia to the Republic of Lithuania, a position awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. In this position, she organized several conferences and seminars on Soviet heritage in Lithuania and Georgia, as well as in Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries. Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she has been an active volunteer with the Lithuanian Red Cross, assisting Ukrainian refugees with migration services.

Her areas of interest include Russian and post-Soviet politics, memory politics, and the dissemination of disinformation and misinformation.