| Siân Evans | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Librarian, activist, and Wikimedian |
| Known For: | Co-founder of the Art+Feminism, a global edit-a-thon to challenge gender bias on Wikipedia |
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.
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 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]