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==Bio==

Zişan is a University Innovation Fellow ~~Candidate~~ and a ~~junior Chemical Engineering~~ master student ~~aiming to improve herself on environmental sustainability~~at 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.

~~She got involved in various projects related to different social and environmental issues. Those projects raised~~ Throughout her ~~awareness about what’s going on in the world and how she~~education, as Zisan has consistently shown a ~~chemical engineer, can play a role in solving those issues. At the top~~ dedication to exploring various facets of ~~all global issues~~environmental sciences, ~~she believes that we should start with the environment-related ones. Because~~including climate policy, ~~they are the cause of most social issues including global poverty~~bioenergy, ~~migration~~ and ~~inequalities~~environmental economics. She ~~has been doing research about biodegradation and eco-friendly materials and she wants to direct~~ is currently working on her ~~academic background to clean energy and sustainable production systems. Also, she has been working as a climate change~~ thesis on "The role of policy in the effective adoption of low carbon and ~~sustainability consulting intern for a time~~negative emission technologies. "

~~With~~ Zisan's professional journey has encompassed diverse roles that have further enhanced her ~~experiences~~ skills and expertise. Her last experience is as a Jr. Sustainability Consultant at 3pmetrics, a B2B SaaS GHG Accounting Platform. 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 journey~~worked 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 Ecosummit Berlin, a ~~better~~ Future VC Leader at The New Rising VC Academy, and ~~equal world~~a 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.~~

==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/

Zisanozdemir

2020 Cohort, 2021 uiguides, 2022 uiguides, 2023 uiguides, 2024-cohort-mentor

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