Women To Watch Awards 2026 honors Apryl Evans

Apryl Evans is a Chief Human Resources Officer and governance strategist with a career built at the intersection of organizational design, executive leadership, and human capital. As CHRO of USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, she leads workforce strategy for an organization dedicated to protecting and empowering refugees worldwide. Her work is grounded in Decision Architecture, a framework that treats HR as a governance and structural design discipline rather than a culture management function.

A Forbes HR Council contributor, her writing examines how executive teams make decisions, build trust, and design systems that either enable or undermine their mission. She leads with precision. She thinks in systems. And she has spent her career building the kind of infrastructure that lets organizations move with clarity at every level.