Yakovenko was elected a deputy of the Vinnytsia Oblast Council, 5th convocation, and chair of the standing commission on education, culture, and spiritual revival.

[3] She is the chair of the Vinnytsia Regional Local History Literary and Artistic Public Organization "Velyka Rodnya".

[5] Yakovenko is the author of dozens of scientific papers and manuals in the field of Ukrainian and world literature, and literary local lore.

In particular, she studied the works of Yuri Klen, Leonid Mosendz, Mykhailo Stelmakh, Nikolay Nekrasov, Matsuo Bashō, Rudyard Kipling, and others, as well as the philological aspects of Scripture.

Dozens of songs based on Yakovenko's poems have been written by Vinnytsia composers Oleksandr Pilchen, Leonid Hrushevsky, Olga Yanushkevych, Andriy Shinkovych, Natalia Todosienko, Yakov Polyakhivsky and Maksym Kolesnikov (Kazakhstan).