Nurhayat graduated from Boğaziçi University‘s Translation and Interpreting Studies (undergraduate degree) and California State University’s Communication Sciences (master’s degree) departments. She has been working as an interpreter since 1993. She is a member of AIIC and TKTD and is accredited to EU institutions. She has been teaching translation and interpretation courses at Boğaziçi University’s Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies since 2000. Her working languages are Turkish (A) and English (B). She is a partner at Enterkon. She is a lover of coffee and New York City and is an amateur musician.