Evelyn is a policy research intern for the Illinois Policy Institute. In this role, she researches and writes about policy issues affecting Illinois.

Evelyn grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and is a rising senior at Creighton University, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with majors in economics and business intelligence and analytics and a minor in math. Evelyn has also worked as a research scholar for the Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton and has been involved with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. She is the president of Creighton’s chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the business honors society, and is a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international honors society for economics.