Short CV

Born in 1975 in Adana Kozan, he completed his primary and secondary education in İmamoğlu High School. He first graduated from Erciyes University Health Services Vocational School and then from Eskişehir Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Department of Educational Communication and Planning. While studying at the university, he received a scholarship from the Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey. She started working at TEGV as soon as she graduated to pay her debt of loyalty. This step into civil society changed her life and since then (except for a few years) she has always worked in the field of civil society. The organizations she worked for are respectively: TEGV / TEMA / GENÇTUR (GHD). She still takes active roles in various institutions such as GHD Board Member, Founder of International Project Education Youth Center Association, consultant for Share the Future Civil Initiative, and provides consultancy and trainings to 10s of civil society organizations in the fields of institutionalization, volunteer management, advocacy, social entrepreneurship, fundraising. Professionally, she is a lecturer at Yaşar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Science and Culture. She teaches Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship courses. In 2016, she is the founder and coordinator of the "There is kindness in Izmir" movement that started in Izmir, and the founder of the Kindness in Corona Days Platform, which was established immediately after the pandemic in March 2020. She conducts training activities in the fields of volunteering, civil society capacity building and social entrepreneurship.