Shelly Evans is a Licensed Professional Counsellor with a master’s in counselling psychology and a Ph.D. in public health. She currently resides in Columbia, Missouri, USA. Shelly has been a volunteer mental health trainer with Network for Africa since 2008 and has trained in northern Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, and Burundi. Using the training programme developed for Network for Africa, Shelly has also taught counsellors among Yezidi survivors of Islamic State’s brutal occupation of Iraq. Prior to becoming involved with N4A, she lived and worked in South Korea and China. She was a board member of Step Up, An American Association of Rwandan Women and travelled to Rwanda multiple times as a mental health trainer, which is how she became connected with Network for Africa. Shelly presently works as a trauma psychotherapist with a non-profit organization that serves survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, human trafficking, and stalking.