Özge is the part-time Tackling Religious Hatreds & Intolerance Intern at ENORB. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Tilburg University and obtained her master’s degree in Conflict and Development Studies from Ghent University. Throughout her undergraduate and master’s degree, she specialized in migration, human rights, and gender studies.

Next to her academic career, she volunteered with various organizations that worked with migrant and refugee communities in different parts of the world. During her bachelor’s degree, she volunteered with an organization aiming to provide free quality education for children refugees facing discriminatory situations when enrolling in schools in Beirut, Lebanon. She also volunteered with a Ghent-based organization focusing on providing humanitarian aid to refugees in Dunkirk and Calais in France. Last summer, she worked with a civil society organization called Kırkayak Kültür in Gaziantep, Turkey. She helped the organization in its projects aiming to create a dialogue between the migrant and the local community in the region. Lastly, during her master’s degree, she got deeply involved in the human rights of migrant and refugee communities and became engaged in solidarity actions and movements for undocumented migrants in Belgium.