Andre Evans is a Truman scholar, MIT Lincoln Lab Fellow, youth activist, speaker, engineer, military professional and motivator. Drawing from personal experience of having joined a Chicago gang—the Gangster Disciples Nation—at the age of 12, Evans delivers empowering messages to youth in at-risk neighborhoods on how to break the cycles of violence and poverty that many face in under-resourced communities. He is currently president of the Midshipmen Black Studies Club (MBSC), a STEM leader, a member of the USNA Gospel Choir and a military outreach officer for the US Naval Academy, as well as a senior and Naval Architecture major at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.