After graduating from Robert College in 2001, she completed her undergraduate studies in Social and Political Sciences with a scholarship from Sabancı University. Subsequently, she completed her master’s degree in Human Rights and Anthropology (MSc) at London School of Economics (LSE) as a joint scholar from TEV and British Chevening. She received her Ph.D. in Amsterdam from Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis in 2011. She worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Koç University Social Impact Forum (KUSIF) and she gave lectures about social impact and social entrepreneurship at Koç University Graduate School of Business. Currently, she lives in Amsterdam and works as a researcher at VU Amsterdam.