- Nazlı Hazar
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. She finished her master’s studies at the Cultural Studies Department, Sabancı University in 2020 with her thesis entitled “Silenced Memories: Yazidi Women in Turkey.” In 2019, she started working as a Purple Certificate Project Specialist at Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence. Her interests include gender, oral history, ethnography, memory, ethnicity, violence, and resilience.
- İlayda Ece Ova
Ilayda Ece Ova has received her BA degree in International Relations at Bilkent University and her MA degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University. She has worked as an M&E Officer at an NGO for refugees before joining SU Gender and currently works as a Project Specialist for the GEARING-Roles project, Curious Steps and Purple Certificate Programs.
- Ceyda Karadas
Ceyda works as Purple Certificate Program Coordinator at Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). Ceyda studied International Relations at Ege University, and received her MA degree in Gender and Women's Studies program at METU. Ceyda is interested in beauty perception and aesthetic surgeries.
- Emirhan Deniz Çelebi
Emirhan Deniz Çelebi works as an Education Coordinator at Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender). Çelebi completed his BA degree in English Language Teaching at Gazi University and his MA degree in Sociology at Yıldız Technical University, and he continues his doctorate in Educational Sciences at Boğaziçi University. Celebi participated in various projects on LGBTI+ rights in Turkey and abroad, he carried out voluntary/professional studies with many civil society organizations in Turkey, as well. Celebi, who is interested in Adult Education and Adult Learning, works with many companies in the fields of raising LGBTI + awareness, discrimination, inclusion and diversity.
- Hülya Adak
Hülya Adak is the Director of SU Gender (Sabancı University’s Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence). Since 2018, she has been Professor of Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the Free University of Berlin. At Sabancı University, she co-founded the Cultural Studies BA and MA programs and Gender Studies PhD Programs. Hülya Adak’s areas of interest are gender and women's studies; theories of autobiography and the novel; nationalism and national myths; World War I and Ottoman Armenians in history and literature.