Macombs is a Black-owned, Harlem-based creative studio.

nia t. evans, Founder

nia t. evans is a writer and creative strategist with over a decade of experience producing stories about Black life, politics, and culture. 

As a journalist, nia writes about politics and protest. She has covered bipartisan efforts to criminalize dissent, global movements to end police terror, and the intersection of art and politics. Her conversations with Angela Y. Davis, Dorothy Roberts, and other prominent Black scholars have been published in a variety of outlets. Previously, she was on the editorial staff at Boston Review and Mother Jones. 

When she’s not reporting, nia helps nonprofits, media outlets, and individuals supercharge their storytelling efforts. Her impact as a creative strategist can be seen in the launch and pages of Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics and culture, the videos of video journalist Garrison Hayes, and the design of youth programming at the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative. In all her work, she seeks to create narrative openings that bring us closer to Black liberation. 

nia is an ardent yapper and has facilitated panel discussions at the Brooklyn Museum, the People’s Forum, and the New York Public Library. She is an alum of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and lives in Harlem. You can check out her work here.