Leané is committed to delivering high-quality project support. She is skilled at conducting research and literature reviews, coordinating and facilitating stakeholder engagement, producing quality presentations and project outputs, and polishing reports.

Prior to joining Sapere, Leané supported a busy social services team as an executive assistant at Family Works Central, and worked as an intern at ChangeMakers Resettlement Forum developing a research library related to refugee-background and ethnic migrant communities in Aotearoa. During her study, she also worked as a research assistant and a tutor in undergraduate public policy.

Leané holds a Bachelor of Arts in public policy and religious studies from Victoria University of Wellington, where she was recognised three times on the Dean’s List for Academic Excellence.

She is currently studying toward a Master of Climate Change Science and Policy at Victoria University of Wellington.