Stacie Sanders Evans serves as the President and CEO of Arts for Learning Maryland. She has devoted her career to young people and creating opportunities for them to find their voice, understand their power, and use their voice and power to realize what is possible for them and for the world.

Her strength and passion are creating strong teams and leading a results-based management approach centered in equity. Her focus for over the past 20 years has been building Arts for Learning Maryland (formerly Young Audiences of Maryland) into a driving force for arts education that is transforming the lives of Maryland youth by connecting educators, professional artists and communities. In that time, she built the organization from a small, four-person operation into a staff of more than 60 people, with a ten-fold increase in budget and a network of more than 200 artists that directly serves nearly 180,000 children every year.

The opportunity to create, understand, and express who she was as an individual was the foundation for her growth as a young person, from attending a performing-arts high school to studying dance in Ghana in college. She is passionate about creating similar opportunities for children, particularly for students who are not being well-served by the traditional education system.