İstem D. Akalp

İstem D. Akalp is leading the Social Entrepreneurship Program in Turkey for Ashoka, world’s first and widest social entrepreneurship platform. She started working onvolunteering, civil society, and social entrepreneurship in yer first years at Boğaziçi University and took an active role in founding Turkey’s first social entrepreneurship platform for young people. She worked with at Educational Volunteers Foundation of Turkey and Greenpeace Mediterrenean – Turkey offices. She is a member of Sen de Gel Association and a fellowu of Youth Action Net. Besides working with social entrepreneurs to widen and deepen the impact of social transformational work, she reads, and writes on the island and travels around the world.