Gizem Şentürk is a digital communications specialist at WRI’s global communications team. Their responsibilities range from creating social media campaigns to implementing communications strategies and supporting WRI’s digital presence.

Before joining the global team, Gizem worked with WRI’s Europe office for a year, setting up a social media strategy for WRI’s work in and from Europe. Prior to their role at WRI Europe, they worked at UN Women’s Europe and Central Asia Regional Office as a social media specialist where they amplified feminist voices across the region, covering 14 countries and various programs.

Gizem finished a double major program at Koç University in Istanbul, where they obtained BAs in Comparative Literature and Media & Visual Arts. They also completed an MA in Environmental Humanities at VU Amsterdam and studied at the Master Institute of Visual Arts in the Netherlands.

In their free time, they’re mostly playing video games, visiting art exhibitions or reading about queer ecology. They live in Utrecht, the Netherlands with their partner and two cats.