Tanyella Evans

Overview

Tanyella Evans is the co founder and COO of Library For All a tech non profit that has built a cloud based digital library and platform to make knowledge accessible to communities in the developing world. Tanyella has experience in social entrepreneurship and international development through the lens of education and culture. Prior to Library For All Tanyella lived and worked as a teacher in Uganda and trained at the Campaign for Female Education in the UK. As Executive Director of Artists for Peace and Justice Tanyella led a team to establish a school that is now serving over 2000 students on the edge of one of the poorest slums in Port au Prince Haiti. It was the search for a scalable solution to the lack of access to educational materials that led Tanyella to meet her co founder Rebecca and launch Library For All in 2012. Tanyella is a recipient of a United World College scholarship to Lester B. Pearson College and graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in the UK.