Malik Evans

Malik D. Evans is an American politician and banker who is the 71st and current Mayor of Rochester, New York. A member of the Democratic Party, Evans previously served on the Rochester City Council as an at-large member and on the Rochester City School Board including several years as its president. Early life Evans was born to Gwendolyn Evans and Lawrance Lee Evans Sr., a minister who founded the First Community Interfaith Institute focusing on social justice and two time political candidate for the New York State Assembly against Gary Proud and Rochester City School Board in the 1970s. Evans attended Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School, graduating in 1998, the University of Rochester, graduating in 2002 with an undergraduate degree and Nazareth College, graduating from the School of Management. Malik Evans is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. Career Early career In 1996, at age 16, Evans helped found the City/County Youth Council which later became Youth Voice, One Vision and the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council. 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. Also while at the University of Rochester, Evans was part of a 200-student sit-in outside University President Thomas Jackson's office in 1999 calling for the preservation of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies which was facing elimination at the time. He also previously worked as a legislative aide to former councilman Wade Norwood as one of his first jobs.