She studied English literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton where she became involved in political opposition to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
[2] From 1995 to 1998 Evans dedicated herself to environmental activism, providing cartoon reportage from a tree house on the route of the Newbury Bypass for The Guardian newspaper.
In 1998, Evans wrote, illustrated and published her account as Copse: the Cartoon Book of Tree Protesting.
[3][4] Since 2000, Evans has produced a series of non-fiction graphic works on a variety of social and political topics.
[citation needed] Evans returned to comics journalism with the book Threads from the Refugee Crisis, reportage from the Calais Jungle.