diff --git a/tpot2/tpot_estimator/steady_state_estimator.py b/tpot2/tpot_estimator/steady_state_estimator.py
index a6a84458..d0ac6633 100644
--- a/tpot2/tpot_estimator/steady_state_estimator.py
+++ b/tpot2/tpot_estimator/steady_state_estimator.py
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ def __init__(self,  scorers= [],
         self._scorers = [sklearn.metrics.get_scorer(scoring) for scoring in self._scorers]
         self._scorers_early_stop_tol = self.scorers_early_stop_tol
         
-        self._evolver = tpot2.SteadyStateEvolver
+        self._evolver = tpot2.evolvers.SteadyStateEvolver