Koray Yılmaz-Günay is co-director of the Migration Council Berlin, the umbrella organisation for over 80 migrant organisations and organisations representing Black people and people of colour. He also works in extracurricular political education, with a particular focus on anti-racist education. Yılmaz-Günay has been socially and politically active since the early 1990s, primarily in movements critical of capitalism and racism, as well as queer movements, including many years with GLADT e.V., an association of queer people of colour. He has been involved in political education since the mid-1990s; from 2011 to 2016, he was a consultant on migration at the Academy for Political Education of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His activism and journalistic work culminated in the founding of the Yılmaz-Günay publishing house in 2015.