Ersoylu Consulting was founded in 2007 by Dr. Leah M. Ersoylu and Sarp Ersoylu to provide policy and advocacy solutions to non-profit clients in Southern California.  Since then, the firm has evolved to deliver a broad array of evaluation services, strategic management and research support to clients in all sectors engaged in social change projects. Ersoylu Consulting is based in Orange County, CA with increasingly active partnerships in Istanbul, Turkey.

Our team is led by Dr. Leah Ersoylu.  She holds a B.S. degree in Environment & Resource Economics from University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a focus on public policy, from University of California, Irvine. She is a policy analyst and researcher by training with experience in grassroots advocacy in an array of social justice-related public policy issues. Dr. Ersoylu has nearly 10 years of non-profit experience at both the programmatic and management levels. She has worked with numerous community-based organizations over the years and most recently, served as founding Director of Policy at Latino Health Access, a non-profit organization supporting the disenfranchised Latino community in Orange County (2004-2007). 

She occasionally serves as a lecturer at University of California, Irvine and California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches courses on Nonprofit Organizations, American Government, Urban Politics and Public Policy Analysis.

Mr. Sarp Ersoylu is the co-founder and Vice President of Ersoylu Consulting. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and an M.B.A from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He has nearly ten years of experience in managing large size environmental and infrastructure projects, including light rail transit systems, ports & harbors, water-wastewater facilities and various other improvements, both in design and delivery stages. 

Mr. Ersoylu has extensive technical knowledge of public works program delivery and budgetary processes and is proficient in the fields of project management and claims mitigation. Mr. Ersoylu is a registered professional civil engineer in the State of California and an expert in CPM scheduling.

Other team members work with us on a project-by-project basis. Ersoylu Consulting has a network of over a dozen experienced, culturally competent consultants with expertise in fields ranging from environmental policy to educational assessments.  This diversity helps us to ensure that we create just the right team for your particular project, tailored to meet your needs.