Yamina Sara Chekroun

Yamina Sara Chekroun is a legal professional with significant experience in various roles across the legal sector. Currently serving as General Counsel at Paxful since April 2024, Yamina previously held positions at Ramp, including Head of Legal US and Senior Corporate Counsel. Additional experience includes roles as Advisor at Energi Core, Corporate Counsel at Celsius, and Legal Advisor for DeFi Investment Fund, where responsibilities involved due diligence on decentralized protocols. Yamina founded Civil, an Ethereum protocol for managing criminal justice data, and has a background in civil litigation, having worked as a Civil Attorney at New York County Defender Services and The Legal Aid Society of NYC. Yamina's early career included serving as Secretary of the Drugs and the Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association and as an Attorney at The Venture Law Group, focusing on crowdfunding and cryptocurrency regulations. Yamina holds a J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law and an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto.