Evonne works as the Vice President of Programs at Code for America. In this role, she manages program and partnership staff and leads cross-functional teams of engineering, design, and product staff to develop civic technology aimed at transforming the criminal justice and workforce development systems. Towards this end, she oversees forging meaningful partnerships with local and state governments, community-based organizations, and stakeholders across the country; designs and implements impactful policy and advocacy strategies; and advises on service-delivery developments that seek to improve the way governments deliver key services to the people who need it most.

Previously, Evonne served as Compliance Counsel & Director of People Systems at the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC), advising the organization on a range of internal legal matters and overseeing risk management and compliance programs while driving process improvements across business functions and leading the HR and IT teams. She also worked as the ACLU-NC’s Legal-Policy Department Manager & Attorney.

Before joining the ACLU-NC, Evonne worked as a staff attorney at the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) where she implemented the Immigrant Consumer Justice Project. Evonne has also served as an investigator with the Criminal Justice Clinic at Georgetown University School of Law and paralegal with the Death Penalty Clinic at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She led a statewide advocacy initiative as a Nutrition Policy Advocate with California Food Policy Advocates.

Evonne is a graduate of UCLA School of Law, where she was selected into the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and enrolled in the Critical Race Specialization. While in law school, Evonne served as a judicial extern with the Honorable Edward M. Chen, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. She was appointed to serve as a member on the State Bar of California’s Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services.

In addition to serving as a member of the CORO Board of Directors ​Evonne is a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley School of Law where she teaches Legal Ethics to second- and third-year law students.