I make beautiful things. I talk about difficult ones.
I’m Evane.
I’m a Nashville-based entrepreneur, designer and advocate. I’ve spent much of my career building things: businesses, brands, spaces and experiences. I co-founded Poppy & Peep Chocolate with my dad, Mark, and through Evane Stoner Interiors I create experience-driven hospitality and commercial spaces.
More recently, I’ve been using my voice to help create room for conversations that are much harder to build. I am a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and speaking about it publicly has become an extension of everything else I create: a way to make something difficult visible and to remind adults that protecting children requires uncomfortable conversations.
My StoryThree worlds. One life.
Advocacy & Speaking
Survivor advocacy, public speaking, fundraising and child-abuse awareness.
ExploreSome things change when we stop whispering about them.
For years, childhood sexual abuse was something Evane knew how to survive but did not speak about publicly. Today, she uses her story and her platform to help bring difficult conversations into the open, support child-advocacy organizations, raise awareness and funds, and speak to audiences about what silence, disclosure and advocacy can look like.
My Story + Advocacy
Speaking about what we’re taught not to talk about.
Evane speaks to audiences, organizations and communities on:
- Childhood sexual abuse prevention and survivor advocacy
- What adults need to understand about disclosure, belief and intervention
- Breaking the silence around uncomfortable subjects
- Turning personal experience into meaningful advocacy
- Entrepreneurship, creativity, resilience and purpose
- Fundraising and mission-driven storytelling
“The worst thing that’s happened to me isn’t the most interesting thing about me.”Evane Stoner
Let’s make something matter.
- Speaking engagements Keynotes, panels, events
- Advocacy partnerships Nonprofits, campaigns
- Press + media Interviews, features
- Creative collaborations Design, product, brand