Whilst a teacher in the United Kingdom, Yana Mintoff was a member of the
Socialist Workers Party. On 6 July 1978 Mintoff took part in a demonstration in the
UK House of Commons; in a protest against the presence of UK troops in
Northern Ireland, three bags of horse manure were hurled from the public gallery during a debate on
Scottish devolution. On her return to Malta, she helped establish the Association of Women of the Mediterranean Region. Mintoff helped compile four books of collected works. In the US in 1998, Mintoff was a founder and superintendent of the
Katherine Anne Porter School, a
charter school in
Wimberley. She was a candidate in the
2013 Maltese general election, but failed to get elected to the House of Representatives. ==Family==