Draft:Michele Evans

Michele Evans is an American author, filmmaker, and software engineer.

Career
Michele Evans got her start in writing in 2001, when she covered the NBA and NFL for the Denver Weekly News, a local African American publication.

Evans moved to New York City in 2006 when she was hired by IMG as a software engineering to build a website for Tiger Woods. Evans left IMG for ESPN. Evans later accepted a position at Turner Broadcasting where she engineered the online video player for NCAA March Madness.

Film
Evans trained professionally at the William Esper Studio, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Acting Studio, and was a student of Terry Knickerbocker.

Created in 2018, Evans' first feature-length screenplay, Fogel Grip, about the tale of Sven Gunnarsson, a Swedish prisoner sent to New Sweden as an Indentured Servant.

Evans latest film, New York Second, is currently in post-production.

Advocacy
Michele Evans turned to a life of advocacy after her incarceration at Rikers Island and wrote a book based on her experiences there, called Rikers Island: Criminalized Survivor. She testified at the New York City Council about conditions at Rikers and advocated for the passing of legislature to ban solitary confinement in New York City. Evans criticized the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo for not making the COVID-19 vaccine available to incarcerated New Yorkers; she contracted the disease while in Rikers.

Evans made a short film about domestic violence called A Walk to the Park after she was one of the first recipients in the greater New York City area to receive a Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act hearing, granted her by Judge John Carro of the New York Supreme Court in 2019.

Personal life
Evans lives in New York City and is the wife of filmmaker Rainer Evans.

In January 2023, Evans filed a defamation lawsuit against her former lover, Shannon Sharpe, in the New York Supreme Court.