Associate curator of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, since july of 2016. Leaver-Yap works closely with artists to produce publications, exhibitions, and events. Recent projects include work with Uri Aran, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Andrea Büttner, Hanne Darboven, Park McArthur, Lucy McKenzie, Charlotte Prodger, James Richards, and Leslie Thornton. She is the Bentson Moving Image Scholar at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US, engaging artists whose work the Walker Art Center may choose to commission, exhibit, and purchase. Until recently she were the director of LUX Scotland, a dedicated support and promotion agency for artists working with the moving image in Scotland.