Darnesha Evans

Darnesha Evans serves as Community Outreach Coordinator at the Cancer Support Center, where she has worked for two and a half years since January 15, 2024. In this role, she engages with the community through churches, businesses, and schools to connect individuals and families affected by cancer with free resources including counseling, therapy, Zumba, and nutrition classes. She is also Executive Director of Project Kennedy, the nonprofit founded in memory of her late daughter Kennedy Parker, now in its seventh year of supporting families impacted by cancer. Evans previously spent 18 years at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago before making the transition to nonprofit work. She holds a bachelor's degree in television production from Columbia College in Chicago and a master's degree in HR Management from National Lewis University in Chicago. She is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Incorporated and the NAACP, and she serves as a mentor with Emerman Angels, providing support to parents of children impacted by cancer. Evans attributes her success to her daughter and her mother, the two strongest women she knows, and she finds deep fulfillment in her work helping others navigate cancer diagnoses.