Evan most recently worked at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), where she focused on training and education initiatives for researchers, policymakers, and graduate students, as well as projects on climate and energy policy and big data in social science. Before learning as much as possible about randomized evaluations at J-PAL, she was an economics research assistant at the Federal Reserve with an interest in public finance. Evan earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Wellesley College and is originally from Colorado.