Mari-Lynn Evans

Mari-Lynn Evans is the Executive Producer of many television and video programs including The Appalachians (a three hour APT series for PBS); Coal Country ( Discovery Planet Green); Living Well: A Guide to Healthy Aging, Changes, the children’s television program and video Geezbo’s Alley, the documentary Standing in the Safety Zone; and John Glenn: The International Year of Older Adults for PBS. She also executive produced, Body, Mind and Spirit Integrative Medicine:, a 13-week series for American’s Health Network and the Fox Health Network. Ms. Evans has produced, scripted, and directed several commercials, videos, and infomercials, as well as other multimedia projects for national corporations and associations. She is also a media and brand development consultant to international corporate and government organizations and has been a lead consultant to Procter & Gamble. She is the recipient of several national National Institutes of Health awards including the US Small Business Administration Tibbetts Award. She was also the Founder and President of ADULT CARE , adult day care centers , which she sold to SUMM A Hospitals. At SUMMA she was VP of Geriatrics and founded the Center for Senior Health. She has also been President of the Boards of Summit AIDS Housing, OASIS w the May Foundation, ACCESS Shelter for Women, Women’s Network, WEGO./The University of Akron, and other not for profits. She was one of Akron ’s Extraordinary Women (Akron Beacon Journal) and Woman of the Year for Women’s History/Akron. She is also the 2010 West Virginia Filmmaker of the Year which has also awarded Best Film to both The Appalchians and Coal Country.

She has received several national awards including the 1999 U.S. Small Business Administration’s Tibbetts Award and a Bronze Award from the National Mature Media Awards. She holds degrees in psychology, gerontology and womens’ studies, and is from Bulltown, West Virginia.