Tonya M. Evans (@IPProfEvans) is a global leader, accomplished academic and administrator, in-demand keynote speaker and crypto policy and education advisor, with over twenty years of experience in law, academia, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Dr. Evans currently serves as tenured Full Professor at Penn State Dickinson Law School with a five-year co-hire appointment to the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences to pursue her interdisciplinary research. Her work focuses on the intellectual property, legal, regulatory, policy, and economic justice implications of new technologies and innovation; specifically, distributed ledger technologies, cryptocurrencies and other cryptographically secured digital assets including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).