Meriç Çağlar holds a BA degree in International Relations from Galatasaray University and MA degrees in Euro-Mediterranean Relations and Migration Management respectively from Rovira i Virgili and Pompeu Fabra Universities.Meriç (a.b.d.) completed her doctoral program in Gender Studies at Central European University in 2022. Her research interests lie in the areas of forced migration, gender and intersectionality, humanitarian aid and protection systems, and disaster management.
Elif works as an administrative affairs specialist at the Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Excellence Center (SU Gender). After graduating from Özyeğin University with a degree in Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Elif completed her master's studies in the Sociology Program at Boğaziçi University. She is interested in women's labor in food production, culinary cultures, geography, and food-related topics. As a feminist activist, she volunteers with civil society organizations working in the field of gender studies in Turkey.
Melda Çele is the Executive Director of UN Global Compact Türkiye. Established in 2000 by the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, UN Global Compact is an initiative aimed at aligning the operations and strategies of businesses with 10 universal principles in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environmental protection, and anti-corruption. It also encourages companies to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their core business strategies and operations.
Hülya Şimga completed her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Boğaziçi University and her master's and doctorate degrees at Duquesne University in the United States. She currently serves as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Antalya Belek University, as well as the vice rector in charge of academic affairs. She is a member of the Turkish Philosophical Institution, the Board of Directors of the Kuçuradi Philosophy and Human Rights Foundation and the Gender Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP).
As a sociologist, Dr. Dilek Cindoğlu studies the gendered nature of health, labor markets, politics, migration, and sexuality in Türkiye, with broader global implications. She has published on virginity surgeries, C-sections, political sex scandals, and labor market discrimination. She is a professor of sociology at Yasar University, İzmir.
Cenk Özbay has been an associate professor of sociology and gender studies at Sabanci University’ Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences since 2016. They received their B.A. and M.A. degrees from Boğaziçi University and their Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California. Their research and teaching focuses on gender and sexuality, masculinities, the body, cities, culture, and neoliberalism. They have published extensively in national and international academic journals.
Ayfer Bartu Candan is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the Sociology Department at Boğaziçi University. She got her B.A degree from the Sociology and the Psychology departments at the same university in 1990, and got her M.A and Ph.D degrees from the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997. Before Boğaziçi, she taught at Koç University in Turkey, and at the UC Berkeley and Stanford University in the USA.
Fulya is a PhD Candidate in Gender Studies Program at Sabancı University and also working as an instructor at Istanbul Technical University in Advanced English Program. She received her MA from Sabancı University, Cultural Studies Program and BA from Boğaziçi University, English Language and Literature Department. She is a feminist researcher whose interests focus on gender-based violence and women’s empowerment, digital feminist activism, online and offline feminist solidarity networks, #MeToo movement, resistance as well as struggles of women against sexual violence.
Dr. Esin Düzel is a Project Specialist for the Horizon2020 project ACCTING (Advancing Behavioral Change through an Inclusive Green Deal), and gender equality trainer at Purple Certificate and ProGender+ programs. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), MA in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University, and BA in Cultural Studies from Sabanci University. Her work focuses on space and morality in conflicts, feminist peace, and future studies (with a focus on utopias and climate crisis).
Burcu Borhan Türeli works as a Project Specialist at Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) for the EU Horizon 2020 project ACCTING (AdvanCing Behavioural Change Through an INclusive Green deal). She holds a BA in English Language and Literature (2004) and Translation Studies (2005) from Istanbul University with high honors. Awarded a Fulbright scholarship, she earned an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) with a concentration in Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia, USA (2009).