Mabel Evans is the co-founder and CEO of the anti-Female Genital Mutilation charity, The Vavengers. From dynamic grassroots activism, the charity has grown producing live events and fundraisers which raise awareness of FGM through artistic collaborations and amplifying the voices of survivors.
Mabel launched the UK’s first anti-FGM billboard campaign and helpline for women and girls at risk. Recent projects that the Vavengers are working on include live arts events, community building and art therapy workshops for refugee and asylum seeker women who have been affected by gender-based violence.
This and all of Mabel’s creative endeavours are led by a commitment to challenge and change systemic oppression.
A passionate collaborator, Mabel has worked with many other activists and organisations including the Royal College of Midwives, The Circle NGO, The Dahlia Project, The Girl Generation and the Department for International Development and frequently shares her work on panels and at public events.
As well as her charity and activism work, Mabel is a film and creative producer at Left Eye
Blind Productions, working on documentary content that highlights and tackles injustice in
the world. She is passionate about the ways in which creativity can enact change, both on a
social and a personal level. One project she has co-founded with this ethos in mind is Letters
From, offering supper clubs and writer’s retreats to inspire a daily practice of writing and
give participants space to be creative.
The Vavengers is a uk based charity made up of people of different ages, cultural backgrounds, genders and nationalities working together towards a common goal: To End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).