Mary Evans
Mary Evans is a Dayton, Ohio-based activist, abolitionist, and journalist. She holds a BA in the Business of Interdisciplinary Media Arts from Antioch College. In 2022 she was awarded the Bob and Norma Ross Outstanding Leadership Award at the 71st Dayton NAACP Hall of Freedom Awards. She has been a Community Voices producer at WYSO since 2018. Her projects include: ReEntry Stories, a series giving space to system-impacted individuals and West Dayton Stories, a community-based story-telling project centered on the people and places of Dayton’s vibrant West Side. Mary is also the co-founder of the Journalism Lab and helps folks in the Miami Valley that are interested in freelance journalism reach some of their reporting goals.
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Robert McLendon spent two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He says The Ohio Innocence Project and 'The Columbus Dispatch' paved the way for his release. -
Nancy Smith is a former bus driver from Lorain, Ohio, who was wrongfully charged with sexually abusing children in her care. She served more than 15 years in prison. -
Richard Horton served more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Read Horton's advice for people who find themselves in the situation that he did. -
'Our mission is to free innocent people,' said Tara Rosnell, chair of the Ohio Innocence Project Board of Advocates. Listen to her full interview with WYSO's Mary Evans. -
To see Justice Michael Donnelly speak, RSVP to lheller2@udayton.edu by the end of the day on Sept. 10. -
Did you know what post-incarceration syndrome is? An Ohio researcher spoke with WYSO this Mental Health Awareness Month about her advocacy to have the mental illness formally recognized. -
Knox is coming to Dayton this week to speak at an event for the Ohio Innocence Project, a local nonprofit whose mission is to free every innocent person convicted of a crime they didn’t commit. -
We visit DeSoto Bass in this season of West Dayton Stories, the city’s oldest and largest public housing complex. The stories from this place are tender and troubled, and reveal some of the history of Dayton’s African American West Side. -
Community Voices producer amaha sellassie is a student of community; here are his thoughts on what it is — and what it could be. -
Community Voices producer Omopé Carter Daboiku considers community, she sees a plurality.
