Evelyn White

Evelyn White is an author and editor. A dual citizen of Canada and the U.S. and a resident of Salt Spring Island until September 2012, she took ten years to research and write her authorized biography of Alice Walker. Previously she has published articles, essays and reviews on issues relating to women of African descent in publications that include The Vancouver Sun, Smithsonian, Essence, Ms., Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Philadelphia Enquirer, Seattle Times and The Washington Post.

After graduating from Wellesley College, Evelyn worked for a theatre company in Denmark. Returning to the United States, she studied theatre at the University of Washington and began writing professionally while living in Seattle. She graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she received the Christopher Trump Award for her Master’s thesis on “The Racial Development of Blind Black Children.” She earned a Master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University and edited The Black Women’s Health Book: Speaking For Ourselves.

As a former legal advocate for the Battered Women’s Program in the Seattle City Attorney’s office, she has continued to study intimate partner violence as the author of Chain Chain Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships.