Brandon Evans

Instructor and Coach

Brandon Evans is a business development professional with 14 years of experience.  Brandon is the former Director of the Illinois Small Business Development Center for the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago.  In this role he led the organization’s business development efforts while working to maintain the designation as a Small Business Development Center. Additionally, he is a former project manager and Director for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's International Trade Bureau.  Here he worked to organize businesses as members of the organization and worked to bring attention to issues facing women and people of the global majority owned businesses.  Brandon is also a Community Business Academy Instructor and Coach at Sunshine Enterprises, a non-profit which is committed to providing business education and resources to Chicago's rising entrepreneurs. He has been involved with Sunshine since 2019 and has taught over 7 cohorts.  Brandon loves music, working out and cooking.  He is a graduate of the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and lives in the south suburbs of Chicago. 

Brandon@sunshineenterprises.com