
Şule Kıvanç Ancieta
Development Director
Şule Kıvanç-Ancieta brings more than two decades of experience in education and community engagement to her role as Development Director at Bridge to Türkiye Fund. She holds a B.S. in Physics from Middle East Technical University (METU) and has taught in both public and private schools across the United States and Türkiye.
Şule has been part of the BTF community since 2014, when she founded the Chicago Giving Circle. In her current role, she leads the organization’s Community Engagement Committee, helping connect grassroots supporters to BTF’s mission of advancing opportunity and equity in Türkiye.
She is also the founder of Cinema4aCause, an awareness and fundraising initiative that uses documentary and narrative film to spotlight issues of gender and educational inequality in rural Türkiye. Her leadership in the Turkish-American nonprofit space has been featured in U.S. and Turkish media.
In addition to her nonprofit work, Şule co-founded the Science Olympiad Club at Brooks Middle School in Illinois, where she has earned recognition for her hands-on, student-centered approach to science and math education. She lives in the Greater Chicago Area with her husband, Victor, and their son, Lucas.
E-Mail: sule@bridgetoturkiye.org