Derin Atay is a professor of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Bahcesehir University. Her career in education spans 30 years, teaching and doing research in the areas of pre- and inservice teacher education, integration of 21st century skills, active learning, and global citizenship in education, student engagement in online education and multicultural language education. She has articles in the indexed journals, book chapters and projects on various aspects of education and language education and has offered professional development seminars to teachers all over Türkiye.