Bio
Ferrin Evans is a law librarian and adjunct professor (UC Law SF), information professional (Master of Information Fellow, University of Toronto, Archives/Records Management concentration), and jurist (JD, McGill University; BCL, McGill University). He teaches Advanced Legal Research and Certificate in Legal Research courses at UC Law SF.
Ferrin is the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Law Library Review and an assistant editor at Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute. He is active in the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.
As a McGill Law student, Ferrin worked in immigration law, specializing in 2SLGBTQIA+ asylum cases. He also taught an upper-year seminar on cause lawyering and access to justice; served as a research assistant for two projects (legal ethics and professionalism, international law); helped to establish Indigenous legal clinics and pro bono student placements; and volunteered as a student advocate with Legal Information Clinic McGill.
Before law school, Ferrin cultivated his libraries and archives experience at University of Toronto Libraries, where his committee activities and leadership were regularly noted. Beyond this work, enabled through his selection in the prestigious Toronto Academic Libraries Internship (TALint) program, he was a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship Program (now Pathways) and has held multiple short-term archiving contracts.
Ferrin also holds decades of experience within film and media, from Board-level work to logistical/operational planning to festival programming. Notably, he was on the Board of Directors at the MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, and he has been programming at Inside Out Toronto for seven years.
As a queer Filipino man, Ferrin seeks to use his experience to support and mentor other marginalized students and professionals.