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Natalie Evans Author & Illustrator

Naomi and Natalie Evans are writers, educators and speakers based in Margate. They run an educational instagram account which has over 200k followers , as-well as being highly sort out anti-racism educators.

Naomi is mother to two boys and currently teaches in a large secondary school in Kent. She has has over 18 years of experience teaching English and Drama in UK state schools and her experience includes Senior leadership, Head of Department and Advanced skills teacher roles.

Natalie has had over 10 years of event management experience including, hosting and presenting infront of large audience as well as being a youth worker for nearlly 12 years. She now works for EDR full time.

Naomi and Natalie are both of Black Jamaican and White British heritage. In May 2020 a video of Natalie went viral on twitter when she confronted two men racially abusing a ticket conductor. They decided to set up an anti-racism platform on Instagram @everydayracism_ The page shares stories from BIPOC and educational posts focusing on how to be anti-racist. They have been published in various publications including Red magazine and featured in the I newspaper.