MarshawnEvans

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MARSHAWN EVANS CANDIDATE ON SEASON 4 "THE APPRENTICE" & ATTORNEY AT LAW

Marshawn Evans is a distinguished entrepreneur, an accomplished scholar, and renowned motivational speaker.

She is CEO of Communications Counts!™, a national professional development and public speaking consulting agency where she travels the country working with politicians, athletes, entertainers, and media personalities. Recently, she launched an upscale, inspirational women's clothing line.

As Miss District of Columbia, she finished 3rd runner-up winning talent and interview at the Miss America competition. She is a national spokesperson on youth crime prevention and leadership development, and worked with the U.S. Justice Department as a co-founder of the National Youth Network. In 1996, she founded both America CAN!, a comprehensive non-profit youth leadership initiative. As a professional public speaker and activist, she has addressed over 400 audiences at conferences, seminars, universities, and events around the country on leadership, communication, self-image, and her ongoing platform “United Against Crime: Investing in Youth for a Safer Future.”

Once underestimated and labeled a “problem child,” Marshawn believes in providing youth with the skills and motivation they need to succeed. She encourages young people to make positive choices regarding school, peers, drugs, and alcohol. She states that, “ALL children can learn and that ALL children can succeed! It's up to America to make sure that happens.”

Because of her passion for youth, Marshawn was given the “Strengthening the Voice of Youth Across America Award” by the U.S. Justice Department, and the Miss America National Community Service Award. Then-Governor George W. Bush appointed her to the Texas Juvenile Justice Advisory Board at the age of 19, and she was later named the National Juvenile Justice Advisory Council in Washington, DC.

She graduated magna cum laude from Texas Christian University with honors and distinction, and was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar, a USA Today's All-Academic First Team member, an ambassador to the International Summit of Achievement in Dublin, Ireland, and one of Glamour Magazine's "Top Ten College Women."

She received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as a criminal defense attorney in the Juvenile Justice Clinic and as a litigator on Georgetown 's world-recognized International Commercial Arbitration Team competing in Vienna, Austria. Born and raised in Dallas, TX, she relocated from Washington, DC to Georgia where she began her career as a litigator with a top Atlanta law firm.