I received my BA and MA in Foreign Language Education from Boğaziçi University, in Istanbul, Turkey. Also, I completed a one-year exchange program at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. I joined the SLA program as a Fulbright scholar in 2021. My research interests lie in the area of multilingualism and interaction analysis, particularly in relation to study abroad and working migrant identity construction. I work as a TA for the department of Asian Languages and Cultures, where I teach first semester Japanese.