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{| class="wikitable" style="border: 5px ridge grey; float:right;" |-|[[File:ZisanOzdemirProfilePictureZisanOzdemir1.jpg|300px]]|-alt=|;Name:Zişan Özdemir;School (Cohort):Boğaziçi University (2020 cohort);Majoring in:Chemical Engineering/Environmental Sciences;Country:Turkey;Email:[[Special:EmailUser/Zisanozdemirthumb]]|}
She got involved in Throughout her education, Zisan has consistently shown a dedication to exploring various projects related to different social facets of environmental sciences, and environmental issueslately she is focusing more on carbon management. Those projects raised She is currently working on her awareness about what’s going research on in the world "Challenges and how she, as a chemical engineer, can play a role Considerations in solving those issues. At the top Adoption of all global issuesCarbon Capture, she believes that we should start with the environment-related ones. BecauseUtilization, they are the cause of most social issues including global poverty, migration and inequalities. She has been doing research about biodegradation and eco-friendly materials and she wants to direct her academic background to clean energy and sustainable production systems. Also, she has been working as a climate change and sustainability consulting intern for a time. Storage Technologies in Developing Countries"
With Zisan's professional journey has encompassed diverse roles that have further enhanced her skills and expertise. Her last experiences are as a ESG Product Specialist at Bluearf and Jr. Sustainability Consultant at a early-stage startup, both B2B SaaS GHG Accounting Platforms. Her responsibilities included greenhouse gas accounting, product management, and supporting the pilot testing phase for GHG Protocol Land Sector and Removals Guidance. Before that, she gained through her journeyworked as a Purpose Project Intern and Consumer Direct Marketing Intern at Nike. She played a role in driving Nike Istanbul's purpose strategy, coordinating sustainability and community impact projects, and managing diverse marketing initiatives at Hope Alkazar. As a teaching assistant of Entrepreneurship and Business Development course at Bogazici University and Project Coordinator at BRIGHT Entrepreneurship Center, she wants engaged with peers, faculty, and administrators to make create new learning opportunities, promote entrepreneurship, and foster design thinking. At Ernst & Young, she worked as a Sustainability Consulting Intern on non-financial reporting and impact assessment frameworks, and at Impact Hub Istanbul as a change Community & Programs Intern, engaging in projects focused on accelerating impact enterprises and sustainable development. Besides, Zisan has been actively involved in various organizations and activities. She has served as an ambassador for ClimateHack, Ecosummit Berlin, a better Future VC Leader at The New Rising VC Academy, and equal worlda team member of the Social and Environmental Responsibility Committee (SERC) at ESTIEM. Her engagement with Impact Hub Istanbul, Imece Lab, and other initiatives reflects her commitment to driving positive change. That's why she is here.
current occupation
==Bio==
Zişan is a University Innovation Fellow Candidate , Visiting Researcher at Yale Macmillan Center, and a junior Chemical Engineering master student aiming to improve herself on environmental sustainabilityat Boğaziçi University Environmental Sciences Institute Socio-Ecological Sustainability Program. She was born in Çorum which is a small northern Anatolian city in Turkey. She's lived there until the end of her high school education and has moved to Istanbul for her university education when she was 18.
==Achievements==
Got awarded 1st place at the Innovation Hackathon with a project to digitalize the process of donations by closely working with Deep Poverty Network. The hackathon was held by Impact Hub Istanbul, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Re:Coded.
==Social media profiles==
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zisanozdemir/