Yana van Leeve commenced her career in constitutional litigation at the renowned Legal Resources Centre, founded by Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson. She later specialised in education law and policy. Following a year of clerking at the Constitutional Court for Justice Edwin Cameron, Yana joined Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr as an associate in 2016 and worked there as a senior associate until 2021. She then moved to Ilifa Labantwana, an organisation that focuses on early childhood development, as their Policy, Advocacy, and Communications Director. Yana recently completed her LLM from Queens University Belfast and is now an executive in ENSafrica’s public law practice. Yana is also the former Chairperson of Equal Education.