Rengin Uçkan holds a degree in Social Work from Istanbul University and a master's degree from Marmara University's Department of Political Science and Public Administration, where she completed the Governance and NGOs programme. She also received applied training in Family Counselling from Yıldız Technical University. She has more than nine years of professional field and specialist experience in human rights, migration management, child protection and gender-based violence. During her career, she has worked with organisations including the Turkish Red Crescent and Support to Life, contributing to and managing work on refugee rights, case management, the prevention of child labour in seasonal agriculture, and rights-based advocacy reports. Since 2024, she has worked as an independent consultant supporting civil society organisations in the field of human rights. She works professionally in Turkish, Kurdish, English and Arabic and continues her rights-based work as an independent researcher and journalist in multicultural settings.