Evans received her PhD at The Ohio State University in Art Education, a Master’s in Museum Studies at the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor’s in Art History at Denison University. Her research interests are in the intersections between art museum education, gender, and empowerment. Previous to her PhD, Evans was a year-long fellow at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC in the Department of Education. She has also interned or worked at the Museum of Contemporary art in Chicago, the Lodell Gallery in New Zealand, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for Contemporary Art, the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, the Denison Museum of Denison University, and the University Art Centre at the University of Toronto.