Tonya M. Evans

How a Non-Traditional Path Can Prepare You to Pivot with Purpose and Thrive in the Digital Economy

From checking boxes and coloring inside the lines to discovering innovative ways to disrupt the status quo, Dr. Evans shares her engaging and inspiring story of professional reinvention and how she mastered living on the leading edge to distinguish herself in the future of work and wealth to future proof both her organization’s market advantage and her career path.

In this presentation, Professor Evans explores the important role for advocates and policymakers to ensure the Future of Access, Inclusion and Equity in a Web3 World. Using her own lived experience as a black queer woman, and the inciteful statistics from the FDIC, International Monetary Fund, Ariel/Schwab report on Black Crypto Investors, she discusses the ways that technology can (andshould) be used to decentralize work, wealth and creativity in a way that achieves the optimal balance between encouraging robust innovation; protects consumers, investors and businesses; ensures transparency balanced with financial privacy, and promotes access balanced with security especially for those who have been historically and systemically disenfranchised in the current financial system.

This presentation can also be delivered as a corporate training/workshop.

If you’ve been looking for an unbiased, supportive and straightforward way to learn how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are transforming the future of work and wealth. If you believe cryptocurrency is too complicated, too confusing and WAY too risky, this presentation is for you because Professor Evans thought the same when she was first introduced thought the same way. But she’s done the heavy lifting through the jumbled jargon and fringy buzz words to demystify the echo chamber and clarify how to participate fully in a supportive, inclusive environment. 

Professor Evans empowers underestimated life-long learners traditionally locked out of tech and finance to take control of their financial futures and participate in the new digital cash economy safely, legally and confidently in a welcoming space so they can stay ahead of the curve and create autonomy, opportunity and generational wealth in the fast-paced, tech-driven world.

In this presentation, Professor Evans explores the legal issues present in integrating blockchain technology and crypto assets into the public, private and charitable sectors. She also unpacks the varied and various local, national, and international policy issues associated with achieving the optimal balance between encouraging robust innovation, protecting consumers, investors, and businesses, to ensure transparency balanced with financial privacy, and access balanced with security especially for those who have been historically and systemically disenfranchised in the current financial system.

This presentation can also be delivered as a corporate training/workshop.

Most crypto educators teach you what digital money is: how to buy it, trade it, “HODL” it and sell it. However, those courses rarely, if ever, prepare you for the legal consequences of missteps and misinformation. But ignorance of the law is no excuse. And relying on search engines, social media or anyone who starts a sentence with “I’m not a lawyer but …” is a recipe for legal disaster. Getting into crypto, DeFi, and NFTs without a solid foundation in the legal implications, can get you into really hot water and expose you and your assets to unnecessary risk and potential legal liability.  

In this presentation, noted crypto law and policy expert and educator, Professor Tonya M. Evans shares her crypto asset blueprint to achieve access, inclusion, and empowerment in the new decentralized finance economy so you can engage safely, legally, and confidently in the future of work and wealth. 

Learn industry best practices and learn from a legal expert and demonstrated leader who has taught thousands of students to get in and win in the digital cash economy. Especially those historically excluded and left on the sidelines of tech and finance.

This presentation can also be delivered as a corporate training/workshop.

In this informative and engaging session you will learn how you can safely and securely transform your finances and future to win in the new digital cash economy (without getting scammed or lost in the weeds)!

Evolve or die. That has been a consistent and persistent thread running through messaging from staunch crypto advocates regarding the disruptive purpose and impact on the banking system of bitcoin and the over 22,000 different types of native crypto coins and tokens in the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem. The point is well made and correct. But the fear-based framing is counter-productive and misses the incredible opportunities community banks (publicly or privately owned by local community members) and credit unions (privately owned by its members) can provide in the form of better, faster, less expensive and more creative savings and loans products and features that that provide greater access to banking.

This presentation can also be delivered as a corporate training/workshop.