She/Her
Nana Yanful is the founder of Yanful Law, where she assists clients with human rights issues and state accountability matters, provides consulting services and conducts workplace investigations. She has over 20 years of experience in community building, advocacy, and equity work, which informs her legal practice. Nana is the former founding Legal Director at the Black Legal Action Centre, where she developed the legal clinic’s test case litigation strategy and spearheaded their first interventions. She has worked as a criminal defence lawyer and equity specialist, advising on and investigating human rights and health equity issues in healthcare and public health settings. Nana has appeared in proceedings before all levels of court in Ontario and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. She has received several awards for her contributions, including the Community Service Award from the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, the Ontario Bar Association’s President’s Award, and Lexpert‘s Rising Star: Leading Lawyers under 40. She is a board member of the Collective of Child Welfare Survivors.
Nana holds a J.D. from the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law (2013) and a B.Sc. in Life Sciences and Equity Studies from the University of Toronto (2006). She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2014.
