She obtained her bachelor's degree from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations and Political Science, and his master's degree from Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Social Projects and NGO Management, in collaboration with Uppsala University, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, with a thesis focusing on civil society organizations and migration themes.

Between 2015 and 2016, she worked at the Vatican Embassy Caritas migration units, and from 2016 to 2017, she served as a refugee protection officer at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKGV) under the assignment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She shared his experiences gained in civil society and in the field by working as a lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University from 2017 to 2018, conducting interviews and writing articles for various newspapers and magazines during this period.

From 2018 to 2022, she managed the Rural Development Program of the Hüsnü M. Özyeğin Foundation. During this time, she established the Interdisciplinary Children's Rights Laboratory at Özyeğin University and coordinated one of Turkey's largest European Union cultural and arts funds at the Goethe Institute between 2020 and 2021. In 2022, she served as the director of the Permatürk Foundation.

She is a founding partner at Tilya Ecological Social Cooperative and continues her research and work in the fields of human rights, rural development, the climate crisis, permaculture, and sustainability, in which she specializes and has an interest.

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