While a curator at Atlanta University Center, Evans was instrumental in obtaining an
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for the digitization of the papers of
Martin Luther King Jr. Evans served as the Director of Special Collections at
George Washington University (2008–2012), and Associate University Librarian at
Washington University in St. Louis (2012–2015). She was instrumental in the creation of "Documenting Ferguson," a community-curated digital repository documenting the
unrest in
Ferguson, Missouri, after the
fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer. She has written about the impact of new archival methods to "collect the now" as related to
born-digital materials that are preserved by modern archives in a post-custodial era of
archival science. In 2014, WUSTL joined with the
University of California at Riverside and the
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the
University of Maryland, College Park, and later received a
Mellon Foundation grant to create "Documenting the Now: Supporting the Scholarly Use and Preservation of Social Media Content," an initiative to ethically collect and preserve
Twitter feeds on topics of social justice for future scholarly research. In November 2015, Dr. Evans was named as the new director of the
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. In April 2017, Evans was elected as Vice President/President Elect of the
Society of American Archivists. She served as the 74th president of SAA from 2018 to 2020. ==Select bibliography==