Yana graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in 2014, and from 2010 to 2012 she interned at the John Matejko Academy of Arts in Krakow.
Since 2017, she has worked at Verv, a fitness software company, and since 2019, she has held the position of lead product designer at the Lithuanian company TapLab.
The girl's social media pages state that she lives in Vilnius. It appears she was detained after one of her returns to Belarus.
