[3] After finishing high school, she worked as a travel officer at the Government Tourist Bureau but resigned to marry and have children.
She also served in her iwi (tribe)'s educational organisation, Te Runanga o Ngāti Mutungā, for 20 years.
She continue to work, lecturing at Victoria University on policy development and its impacts on Māori society.
[3] In 1983 she was one of the Spiral Collective, a group of three women who published Keri Hulme's book The Bone People.
[2] Evans was a co-editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Ngā Kupu Tïtohu o Aotearoa, which was published in 1989.