Demarris Evans

Demarris Evans (she/her) works as a Senior Assistant District Attorney in Alameda County. She is a supervisor in the post-conviction unit as well as restorative justice and racial justice act implementation. She previously worked as a Managing Attorney in restorative justice and collaborative courts in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office. She has also been a lecturer at San Francisco State University in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies. Her focus is on racial equity and restorative justice. Demarris worked as a trial attorney in Public Defense for over 20 years. She led the racial justice unit in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and practiced in collaborative courts with a restorative justice lens. She also previously worked as an instructor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Phoenix. Demarris was a member of the San Francisco Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Task Force where she chaired the Bias and Policing Subcommittee. Demarris also teaches mindfulness through the lens of equity, healing and human potential. She is a graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, the Warrior One Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training Program and the Dedicated Practitioners Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. She is a co-facilitator for the Law and Social Change Jam and previously the Re-Storying Justice Jam offered by YES! And she is on the Board of Directors for Spirit Rock Meditation Center.