Human rights advocate with 30 years of experience in monitoring, advocacy and child rights. Leads international programmes for the EU, the International Children’s Centre and the UN; holds a PhD in child rights and serves as a CRIN Board Trustee.
Finance and organisational development consultant. Supports rights-based organisations in financial resilience, governance and strategic planning processes. Works in Turkish and English.
Has worked in research, policy development, advocacy and capacity strengthening in civil society since 2006. Focuses on child and youth rights, labour policies and gender equality.
Feminist activist, human rights advocate and researcher. Holds an undergraduate degree in Cinema and Television and a master’s degree in Cultural Studies. Works as a Policy Specialist at Kaos GL; also serves as a local consultant for UN Women and as a board member of 17 Mayıs Derneği.
Supports civil society organisations in strategic planning, financial sustainability and resource development, drawing on more than 25 years of experience.
Conducts research on contemporary art, memory studies and cultural plurality. Writes and develops programme content for Doğruluk Payı, edits the avestART series at Avesta Publishing, and directs the subSPACE art space in Diyarbakır.
Graduate of METU International Relations and Political Science; holds a master’s degree on children’s books and ideology. Between 2010 and 2020, worked at STGM on capacity strengthening in gender equality, discrimination, volunteer management and strategic planning. Served as a mentor in the Haklara Destek and Birlikte programmes. Since 2025, has worked as Capacity Development Coordinator at STGM. Develops content and delivers training on children’s rights, rights-based approaches, organisational development and conflict transformation.
Works in civil society and climate communications. Founder of Civic Space Media, sivilalan.com, civicspacejobs.com and iklimsalatasi.org. Provides communication expertise for EU programmes.
Works on structural transformation, participation and inclusion in civil society. Strengthens organisations’ institutional systems and financial resilience; designs tailored resource development strategies and training processes.
Supports civil society organisations in monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment and project management. Designs results-based M&E systems, measures organisational capacity development, and strengthens evidence-based learning and decision-making. Works in Turkish and English.
Works in consultancy, training design and workshop facilitation. Supports rights-based organisations in strategic planning, volunteer management, nonviolent organising, collective decision-making and improving intra-organisational economic relations.
Founded the social impact agency Pikan Ajans in 2015, following her role as media and digital communications coordinator at Amnesty International Turkey. Works in communications with and for civil society.
Graduate of Ankara University Faculty of Political Science; holds a PhD in sociology from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Works as a specialist at Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı, Tarih Vakfı and Koç University Social Impact Forum, providing consultancy in social impact assessment, monitoring and evaluation, capacity development and research. Serves as Content Coordinator at the Istanbul Planning Agency and continues her research on the witnessing of political violence and ruined landscapes.
Works in human resources management in the private sector, and as a designer, coordinator, trainer and consultant on rights-based projects in civil society. Has experience in strategic prioritisation, needs analysis, volunteer management and organisational policy development. Holds a degree in business administration and has completed specialist training in Human Resources Management, Advocacy in Civil Society, and Intercommunity Mediation.
