Born and raised in Durban, Yoni began working in the social justice sector soon after he completed his LLB at the University of Cape Town in 2009. After stints at Equal Education and the Social Justice Coalition in 2010, he joined Equal Education full-time in January 2011 as the organisation’s Development Officer. He joined the organisation’s management team in 2012 and in 2013 was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer, serving on Equal Education’s senior management structure. He remained in this position until July 2020 when he began providing operations and fundraising support to several Cape Town non-profits on a consultancy basis. Yoni joined the SJI in February 2021.
