Malik D. Evans is an American politician and banker who is the 71st and current Mayor of Rochester, New York.

While enrolled at the University of Rochester, Evans joined Mayor Bill Johnson's taskforce on city's nightclubs, studying options and code enforcement for black clubs and the Mayor's Council on Race and Ethnicity.

[6] Evans also worked as the Prosperity Program Manager at ESL Federal Credit Union and at M&T Bank.

Evans declared his candidacy for mayor of Rochester on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021.

Based on the task force's recommendations, the city government hired a housing attorney to prosecute landlords with code violations on their properties and began subsidizing the construction of new housing stock for city residents.