Education

Languages

I was born and raised in the U.S., and English is my first language.
I started learning Spanish when I was three years old and have been practicing it ever since. I have used it in both my professional and personal life.
I was born in the U.S. to Turkish immigrants, and grew up speaking Turkish at home. All of my extended family still lives in Türkiye.
I took four years of Korean throughout high school and college and finished at the advanced level.

USC Global Brigades at Marshall (USC GBM) is USC’s business chapter of the international Global Brigades program.
As Marketing Director, I handled all social media accounts, newsletters, and some non-profit coordination. This included significant graphic design work and project management. I also led a team of 12 to Belize to work on two consultation projects in San Ignacio on top of my marketing committee responsibilities.
The Daily Trojan is the last daily-print school paper on the West Coast. While I was there, the paper was printing 5,000 copies a day, five days a week, on top of digitized articles.
As the editor of the Opinion section, I was responsible for coordinating about 16 writers, scheduling their pieces, and working with the art team to create visual aids. I used Adobe InDesign every day to format the paper, and published every piece online using everything from alt text to tags.
The Spanish Undergraduate Student Association offers free conversation tables for any students to join to practice their Spanish.
As the conversation leader, I’d pick topics and keep the conversation going in Spanish, meeting every student where they were at in their language learning journey.
Throughout my years with the Trojan Democrats and the California College Democrats (CCD), I ran statewide newsletters, social media accounts, and meetings.
I grew our social media following by 300% and managed a team of marketing committee members in weekly meetings.