Siân Evans is an American librarian, activist, and

Wikimedian The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This community directly builds and administers these projects with the commitment of achieving this using open standards and software. ...

. She is co-founder of the

Art+Feminism Art and Feminism (stylized as Art+Feminism) is an annual worldwide edit-a-thon to add content to Wikipedia about women artists, which started in 2014. The project has been described as "a massive multinational effort to correct a persistent bias ...

, a global

edit-a-thon An edit-a-thon (sometimes written editathon) is an event where some editors of online communities such as Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap (also known as a " mapathon"), and LocalWiki edit and improve a specific topic or type of content. The events typ ...

to challenge

gender bias on Wikipedia Gender bias on Wikipedia is the phenomenon that men are more likely than women to be volunteer contributors and article subjects of Wikipedia (although the English Wikipedia has almost 400,000 encyclopedic biographies about women, men have abo ...

. Evans is a librarian at

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

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Evans is co-founder of

, a global campaign that challenges

. 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." Evans is the Online Programs Librarian at Sheridan Libraries and Museums at Johns Hopkins University. In 2014, Evans was named one of ''

Foreign Policy Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

'' 100 Leading Global Thinkers. 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''. She is part of the

Art Libraries Society of North America The Art Libraries Society of North America (also known as ARLIS/NA) is an organization of approximately 1,000 art librarians, library students and visual resource professionals. The ARLIS/NA was founded in 1972. Activities ARLIS/NA organizes act ...

's Women and Art Special Interest Group.

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