Evan is the CoFounder and Executive Director of Root Change, a pro-equity social change organization that helps social innovators scale-up enduring solutions to social and economic problems by designing products, technologies, and interactive experiences that help people, organizations, and communities build better futures for themselves. Before founding Root Change, Evan served as the Vice President for Capacity Building at Pact, Inc. His duties included setting strategic direction for Pact's organizational strengthening initiatives and projects, developing new capacity-building technologies, and researching new pathways to higher nonprofit performance. At Pact, Evan authored one of the most widely used capacity diagnostic tools in international development, co-founded the Impact Alliance, a global action network, and founded the Capacity Building Services Group (CBSG). Evan has worked in the field of international development and community development for 35 years. He has lived in South Asia and West Africa, and has undertaken numerous assignments abroad in more than 40 countries. Evan has been a consultant to over 50 U.S. international NGOs, Southern NGOs, the United Nations, the World Bank, Peace Corps, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Fortune 500 Corporations including Dow Jones and Time, Inc. He teaches innovation and strategic partnering.