Tanyella Evans

Tanyella Evans is the CEO and co-creator of NABU. From its inception in 2013 as a Kickstarter-funded success story, she has grown the organization into a leading publisher of multilingual children’s books, using technology to accelerate children’s literacy. Prior to NABU, Tanyella served as executive director of Artists for Peace and Justice, where she established a school for 3,000 students in one of the poorest communities in Haiti. In 2010 she helped to launch the social enterprise Giveacar in the U.K., generating new revenue streams for local charities. She started her career at the Campaign for Female Education. Tanyella is the recipient of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award, an International Literacy Association Honoree, an Echoing Green Fellow, and one of Forbes 30 Under 30.  Tanyella is a graduate of the University of Cambridge in the U.K.