Rise Fellow 2022

Adanur is a Kurdish disability-rights activist from Diyarbakir, Turkey. She is passionate about helping the hearing-impaired community and empowering them. For her Rise project, she designed a website and app that voices important phrases for the hearing-impaired community, prepared a booklet in three languages, organized conferences at school, and gave robotics lessons to hearing-impaired students. With her project, she will represent Turkey at Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge. Strongly believing in the importance of equality and representation, Adanur strives to offer a more inclusive world to underprivileged communities.