Evan is an award-winning photojournalist, freediver, emergency medical technician, and nursing student. While at the University of Montana, he edited his student newspaper, The Montana Kaimin, before spending five years as a staff photojournalist at MPR News in Saint Paul, Minnesota. There, he covered stories of social justice, environmental movements, politics, and public health across the country. His images have landed in TIME’s Top 100 photos of the year and in major publications around the world. He has guest lectured on journalism at multiple universities and high schools and taught underwater photography at youth rehabilitation centers in the Midwest. Since 2022, he has worked in mental health crisis intervention in Santa Fe, New Mexico, while studying to be an intensive care nurse at Santa Fe Community College, along with freelancing for local and national news outlets. Despite living in the mountains, Evan loves to be underwater and is an avid freediver—photographing world champion spearfishers in his spare time. He has previously led Putney’s Service Fiji and Career Baja programs.