Yanelys Núñez Leyva (Havana, 1989-) is a curator and human rights activist. She is a political exile currently living in Spain. Núñez Leyva is co-author with the artist and current political prisoner, Luis Manuel Otero, of the Museum of Dissidence in Cuba. She is one of the founders of the Movimiento San Isidro and the event #00BienaldeLaHabana. 

She has held workshops to present her independent cultural production tools at conferences in the United States, Argentina, Chile, England, and Czech Republic, among others. Her texts have been published in magazines such as Terremoto, Cuban Art News, and Árbol Invertido, and in anthologies about Cuban art such as Pan Fresco (Almenara Press and the Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, 2019) and Lenguaje Sucio (Editorial Hypermedia, 2019). She is currently part of the editorial team of the magazine Alas Tensas and coordinator of the Observatorio de Género de Alas Tensas (OGAT).