Yan is a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar and a Housing and Urban Policy Scholar at NYU Law School. She completed her B.A. at Stanford, and began working with Building a Better Legal Profession as an undergraduate there. Before attending law school she worked in the Rackets Bureau of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office where she sat on the Diversity Committee, and at the New York City Commission on Human Rights.

Building a Better Legal Profession (BBLP) is an organization based at Stanford Law School.   BBLP is a national grassroots movement that seeks market-based workplace reforms in large private law firms. For more information, visit BBLP's Web site at www.betterlegalprofession.org.