Claire Evans
Claire Evans has experience in the financial services, legal and nonprofit sectors. She is currently an Associate in Financial Crime Compliance at Goldman Sachs, where she focuses on anti-money laundering investigations. Claire has a strong understanding of nonprofit governance and management through her prior service as the Executive Director of charitySTRONG, an organization created by the New York Attorney General’s Office in 2014 to train a new generation of nonprofit directors to be effective and accountable. She was asked to lead charitySTRONG after spending three years serving as an Assistant Attorney General in the Charities Bureau, where she investigated and prosecuted nonprofit fraud and abuse. Before joining the New York Attorney General’s Office, she worked at Wealth and Tax Advisory Services LLC, where she focused on providing tax consulting and financial planning for private foundations, charitable remainder trusts and public charities. Claire has served on a number of international nonprofit boards and as a member of the New York City Bar's Committee on Nonprofit Organizations. She holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and a B.A. from Georgetown University.