Siân Evans (librarian)

co-founders Michael Mandiberg, Siân Evans, and Jacqueline Mabey, 2016]]
Siân Evans is a librarian, activist, and co-founder of , a global campaign that challenges gender bias on . Evans notes that as part of Art+Feminism, "we do concrete work - adding citations to pages, expanding coverage of women in the arts - but, we also understand these events as platforms for consciousness raising and hopefully strategies for change emerge from that." Evans is the Information Literacy & Instructional Design Librarian at Maryland Institute College of Art.
In 2014, Evans was named one of Foreign Policy 100 Leading Global Thinkers.
Evans' research and writing on digitally focused gender equity has been published in Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America and in the book [https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/litwin/379rt7;jsessionid=mp5e51pq84o8.x-ic-live-01#Supp Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond]. She is part of the Art Libraries Society of North America’s Women and Art Special Interest Group.
Personal life
Evans has a pitbull named Pickle and is a strong believer in animal adoption.

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