Ilene Evans
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Ilene Evans
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Evans is an actress, storyteller, musician, historian, and teaching artist living in West Virginia. She is co-founder of Voices from the Earth, a non-profit arts organization and has served as the President of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild. She has travelled extensively with her work and was selected by the US Embassy to tour Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Columbia to share her work in the history and culture of African Americans through the arts. In 2015, as a member of the National Association of Black Storytellers, she travelled to Ghana, to bring the story of Harriet Tubman and the diaspora to the University of Ghana. For her ability and passion to give voice and celebrate the life of Harriet Tubman, Evans received the Foundation of Freedom Award from Wheeling Jesuit University.
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West Virginia
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Ilene Evans