Sevde is a creative writer and digital marketing professional with a B.A. in English, Creative Writing from Stanford University. Passionate about making educational information accessible to all, she led the Turkish localization project at wikiHow, where she also managed the visual team’s operations, and she’s thrilled to help manage the international localization projects and partnerships at Beyond Type 1. Sevde believes in the power of storytelling to drive social change. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have been published in various anthologies and literary journals, and one of her short stories was a finalist for the Pleiades 2021 Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction. She is currently working on building Bereket Writing Community for writers from marginalized backgrounds, as well as for allies for social justice and diversity.