Prof. Sayers, one of the founding members of Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabanci University (SU), has served at SU, as the Director of Foundations Development (Core Curriculum) Program during 2010-2019 and as the interim President in 2018. Professor Sayers has an international research career including working as a staff scientist at EMBL Hamburg and post doc work at the Open University Oxford Research Unit, UK and the Wallenberg Laboratory in Uppsala Sweden.

Didem Danışis a sociologist whose teaching and research activities evolve around topics related to migrations, cities and demography. She teaches at Galatasaray University and is the founder of the Association for Migration Research (GAR). In 2008, she received her PhD degree from EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). This thesis was devoted to the analysis of the interaction between Iraqi transit migrants and refugees’ social networks and the reception politics. She stayed at Malmö University, Sweden as a visiting Ph.D. student in 2002-2003.

Zeynep Gülru Göker received her undergraduate degree in Social and Political Sciences from Sabanci University (2003) and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center (2011). Since 2021, she has been working as research faculty member at the Sabanci University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Between 2017-2021 she has worked as researcher at the Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender).

Nazlı Türker holds a BA in International Relations, 9 Eylul University, an MA in Political Science from Sabancı University. Since her student years, she has been engaged in various civic activities and rights-based advocacy projects, especially on cultural diplomacy, civil society studies, gender, LBGTIQ+ rights and activists' well-being.

Nazlı Hazar graduated from the Sociology Department of Bahçeşehir University in 2015 with her thesis entitled “Jewish Representations in 30’s and 40’s: The Case of Akbaba Magazine.” In 2016, she completed her second major in Political Science and International Relations at Bahçeşehir University.

Kristen Sarah Biehl works as a research faculty member at Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). She holds a BA in Social Anthropology and Development Studies from SOAS, University of London (2015), an MA in Socilogy from Bogazici University (2008) and D.Phil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2018). Since 2006 she has been involved both academically and professionally in intensive research within the migration and asylum field in Turkey.

Begüm Acar works as the coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies Center in Sabanci University (SU Gender). Begüm holds BA degrees in Sociology and Comparative Literature from Istanbul Bilgi University, and an MA in Musicology Program from Istanbul Technical University. As a feminist activist, Begüm has volunteered in civil society organizations on gender equality at both national and international levels, taken part in campaigns and research projects specifically on femicide, local elections, peace, and women's labor.

Marhabo Saparova is a doctoral candidate at Northeastern University Sociology and Anthropology Department. Saparova completed her MA degree in Cultural Studies at Sabanci University where she wrote her thesis on the role of religious affiliation in gendered migration experiences of Central Asian women university students in Turkey. MA training in Cultural Studies and involvement in SU Gender projects and activities (such as Curious Steps) have profoundly shaped her interest and passion for migration, gender and urban studies.

Dr. Eren Benlisoy graduated from the Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University. Her Ph.D. thesis focuses on how the process of rural transformation in Turkey has been restructured by the dynamic of gender. She explored the participation of peasant-workers women into paid labor based on their working experiences and practices at a large-scale and export-oriented greenhouse in Western Anatolia.