Speaker: Emirhan Deniz Çelebi
| Having graduated from the Department of English Language Teaching in 2012, Emirhan Deniz Celebi worked as an English Teacher at a private school in 2012 and 2014. In 2014, he started to work as an Education Coordinator in SPoD. He organized a number of pieces of training based on gender equality for different groups of professions such as psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers and lawyers. He worked as a trainer at some of these pieces of training on LGBTI + Basic Concepts, Legal Gender Recognition Process in Turkey and Europe, Being LGBTI+ in Business and LGBTI+ Inclusive Company Policies. He worked as a coordinator in the training project called “LGBTI+ Inclusive Education” funded by the Swedish Consulate in collaboration with Bilgi University SECBIR. He also went on rights-based advocacy on the UN axis and visited the UN Headquarters in NYC with the scholarship of Outright Action International in 2016. Çelebi completed his MA degree in the Sociology Department of Yıldız Technical University in 2018 with his thesis called “Sociological Analysis of Factors Affecting the Legal Gender Recognition Process of Trans Men in Turkey”. He participated in national and international workshops and conferences as a speaker. Also, he is a PhD candidate in Educational Sciences at Bogazici University. He worked as the Education Coordinator of Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence between 2018-2022. Now, he is currently working as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead at Unilever. |
Event details:
The session will include the latest improvements in Gender Studies in Turkey with different perspectives including civil society, private sector and academia. The speaker will include insights from various aspects of the topic with their real life experiences along with other stories in their bags. Opening the session, the participants will be introduced to the multifaceted nature of gender studies, emphasizing the importance of intersectionality and recognizing the diverse experiences of individuals based on their gender identity and sexual orientation. The speaker, as the ED&I lead of Unilever, will give information about some of the best practices in Turkey and the global side explaining the motto of “Equality isn’t equal, equity is…” The session will end with the Q&A.
Zoom link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItdOyprjguE9VXxsMvke0FycMwJu81XbNM