SUSTAINABILITY + SOCIAL IMPACT+ CULTURAL RESONANCE
I believe in the high value design thinking plays in early education and in building strong communities. In 2015 I founded the Bay Area Turkish Society, a nonprofit community organization in Berkeley, California, where I led the initiatives of educational, cultural, social and recreational programming through arts, dance, music, and cuisine. One of these important programs is the partnership I led between my Industrial Design students with the Berkeley Turkish School community to design educational products that focus on teaching culture through creativity.