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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.[1]

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.[2][failed verification] Evans left IMG for ESPN. Evans later accepted a position at Turner Broadcasting where she engineered the online video player for NCAA March Madness.[citation needed]

Film

Evans trained professionally at the William Esper Studio, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Acting Studio, and was a student of Terry Knickerbocker.[when?][3]

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.[citation needed]

Evans latest film, New York Second, is currently in post-production.[citation needed]

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.[4] 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.[5][6] 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.[7][8]

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.[9]

Personal life

Evans lives in New York City and is the wife of filmmaker Rainer Evans.[10]

In January 2023, Evans filed a defamation lawsuit against her former lover, Shannon Sharpe, in the New York Supreme Court.[11][12]

Bibliography

In addition to writing articles, Michele Evans is the author of seven books.

References

  1. ^ "PARKER: Actress' road to dream TV gig with Robin Williams had twists : Columns & Blogs : The Rocky Mountain News". 2008-04-30. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  2. ^ "Official Website for Tiger Woods". 2007-06-09. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  3. ^ "New York Second". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  4. ^ Pavia, Will (2024-02-21). "Creative Rikers Island inmates writing books to pass the time". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
  5. ^ Evans, Michele (9 January 2024). "City Council City of New York". NYC.gov. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  6. ^ "New York City Council Votes to Ban Solitary Confinement in City Jails". NYC.gov.
  7. ^ "Compassionate Release: An "Extraordinary and CompellingProblem"" (PDF). Santa Clara University.
  8. ^ "I Got Covid at Rikers. I'm Still Suffering". The New York Times. February 4, 2021.
  9. ^ "The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act Gets A Slow Start". New York Focus. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  10. ^ "Satisfied". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  11. ^ Staff, TMSPN (2023-12-05). "Shannon Sharpe's Ex Lover Michele Evans Allegedly Has Active Defamation Suit Against the Former NFL Star". TMSPN. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  12. ^ Black, Caroline (2010-09-16). "Michele Bundy Accuses Shannon Sharpe of Sex Assault; CBS Analyst Steps Aside - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2024-01-10.

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