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).

Begüm Acar works as the Coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies Center in Sabanci University (SU Gender). Begüm studied Sociology and Comparative Literature in Istanbul Bilgi University, and continues her graduate study in Musicology. 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 specially on femicide, local elections, peace, and women's labor.

Melike Boz Akarslan graduated from Boğaziçi University with a degree in Psychological Counseling and Guidance, ranking first in both her department and faculty. She was awarded the Boğaziçi University Faculty of Education Faculty Secretary’s Special Award. After completing her undergraduate degree, she worked as a guidance counselor at a private school. She volunteered in the field with NGOs such as AÇEV and YÖRET to support the development of disadvantaged children. In 2023, she has begun her master’s studies in the Psychological Counseling and Guidance program at MEF University.

Aslı İkizoğlu Erensü is currently teaching at Sabancı University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota, and an MA in Sociology from the University of Essex. She is interested in regimes of mobility and politics of humanitarianism, and has worked on (i) how refugees are constituted as subjects of intervention at the intersection of the two, and (ii) how the experience of asylum is locally produced in Turkish cities.

Nevgül Bilsel Safkan graduated from the Austrian High School in Istanbul in 1989. In 1993, Safkan received her BA degree from the Faculty of Business Administration in Istanbul University, continuing on to complete the Executive MBA Program at Boğaziçi University in 2003. Starting her career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen, she served as the CFO and at General Manager positions at leading companies in the industry.

Ayşe Kadıoğlu has been Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University since 1998. She was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies during the 2019-2020 academic year. She was a Fellow at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies between 2018-2020.

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 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.