Siân Evans (librarian)

Siân Evans is an American librarian, activist, and Wikimedian. She is co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia. Evans is a librarian at Johns Hopkins University.

Siân Evans
Evans in 2016
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Librarian, activist, and Wikimedian
Known for	Co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia

Career

Evans is co-founder of Art+Feminism, a global campaign that challenges gender bias on Wikipedia.^[1][2] Evans notes that as part of Art+Feminism, "we do concrete work – adding citations to pages, expanding coverage of women in the arts – but, we also understand these events as platforms for consciousness raising and hopefully strategies for change emerge from that."^[3] Evans is the Online Programs Librarian at Sheridan Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University.^[4]

In 2014, Evans was named one of Foreign Policy's 100 Leading Global Thinkers.^[5]

Evans' research and writing on digitally focused gender equity has been published in Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America and in the book Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond.^[6] She is part of the Art Libraries Society of North America's Women and Art Special Interest Group.^[7]

See also

• List of Wikipedia people