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May 19, 2025 54 mins

Abbie Evans is Chief Policy & Advocacy Officer for MENTOR. In this role, she oversees the organization’s policy and advocacy agenda before Congress and the Administration and works to build and strengthen the coalition of mentoring organizations and advocates working on behalf of expanding quality youth mentoring opportunities in local, state, and federal policy.

Prior to joining MENTOR in 2013, Evans served as a federal lobbyist for the National Education Association (NEA) representing public educators and school personnel before Congress. While at the NEA, she led efforts to engage Republican legislators around supporting public education across the country.

Evans also served as the lobbyist for the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and worked for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation where she managed the bi-annual Children’s Congress program. Before that, Evans worked on Capitol Hill for a Pennsylvania Representative serving on the House education committee.

A native Pennsylvanian, Evans has a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Pennsylvania State University and currently lives in Washington, DC.

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