As the Program Manager for Digital Solutions of Birlikte Hayat, Zümrüt Ekinci-Zlabinger creates innovative solutions to address the socio-economic disadvantages of vulnerable communities. While in the U.S., Ekinci-Zlabinger worked with Nashville International Center for Empowerment (NICE) in Nashville, where she reduced the social gap between communities and managed projects for low-income immigrant communities in the field. Now in Austria, Ekinci-Zlabinger develops and designs educational technologies to help communities help themselves and engages in storytelling for conflict resolution.