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 writing stories at the intersection of race, politics, and democracy.  

nia began her career in nonprofit communications leading national policy campaigns to stop the criminalization of Black girls in school. After successfully spearheading Dress Coded, a groundbreaking series of reports co-written with 20+ DC middle and high school students, she became a magazine journalist. 

Over the next six years, she joined editorial teams at Boston Review, Hammer & Hope, and Mother Jones. Nonprofit impact remained at the forefront of her journalism, from reporting on food kitchens contending with federal cuts to covering national efforts to bail mothers out of jail. You can find more of those stories here. While reporting, nia often lamented the gap between the powerful stories nonprofits had to tell and the capacity they had to tell them. 

Macombs Studio is an attempt to bridge that gap. We bring the sophistication of magazine journalism to nonprofit storytelling. For nonprofits, a great story, packaged and distributed with care, can make the difference between a family getting groceries. Or a teenager having a safe place to go after school. 

The stakes are high. Together, we can craft stories that break through the noise and make the world a little better.