Suzanne’s Project, or Suzan’ın Projesi, is named after Suzanne Brumfield Yavuz, a passionate advocate for education, sustainable food, farming and gender equality—just like her mother, Dr. Robin Brumfield. Suzanne has roots in Turkey and in the state of New Jersey (where the project model was inspired), and will one day inherit a farm in Kentucky that used to produce tobacco. Her father is Turkish and her mother is American. She visited her two sets of grandparents every summer in rural Kentucky and urban Istanbul.