Sharon Byrne is
a non-profit and government relations expert
with over two decades of advocacy leadership
experience. She brings to WoLF vital
community-building experience and connections;
she currently serves as the President of the
Santa Barbara United Nations Association and
served as a delegate to The UN Conference on the
Status of Women and the Generation Equity
Forums. Sharon is the author of multiple
published articles on women’s rights, including
an Op-Ed in The Independent revealing the
insidious presence of human tracking in Santa
Barbara. She also serves on the board of the
Santa Barbara Women's Health Coalition and has
been a vocal advocate for women’s reproductive
sovereignty.
Sharon was awarded the Santa Barbara County
Sheriff’s Office’s Exceptional Civilian Award in
2023 for her work with the Montecito Association
in reducing gang violence, preventing human
trafficking, and pioneering a model to end
homelessness in the county. She holds a Master's
Degree in Psychology, a Bachelor's Degree in
Management and Economics, and a certificate in
Human Rights Consulting from the International
Institute for Human Rights.
Sharon joined WoLF as Executive Director in
2023.
We
focus on issues that affect women and girls
in
the United States and are ignored
by
mainstream feminist organizations.
OUR
MISSION
To
restore, protect, and advance the
rights of women and girls using
legal argument, policy advocacy, and
public education.
WE BELIEVE
That female humans, the class of
people called women, are
oppressed by men under a system
called patriarchy.
That patriarchy is organized
around the extraction of
resources from female bodies and
minds in the service of men,
including reproductive, sexual,
emotional, and labor resources.
That gender is a hierarchical
caste system that organizes male
supremacy. Gender cannot be
reformed – it must be abolished.
That overlapping systems of
injustice built on misogyny,
racism, and wealth inequality
must all be dismantled for all
women to be free.
WE WORK TO
Halt male extraction of
resources from female bodies and
minds, by regaining reproductive
sovereignty, ending male
violence including the sexual
exploitation industry, and
ensuring that women control the
material conditions of our
lives.
Disrupt and ultimately end the
enforcement of gender, because
women’s liberation can only be
won when this caste system has
been abolished.
Empower women to organize as a
class, including the creation
and maintenance of women-only
spaces.
ABOLISHING GENDER IDEOLOGY
We
educate about the harms of
gender and its centrality to
male domination.
Facilitate a cultural shift away
from gender roles and
sex-stereotypes.
Defend sex-segregation of
domestic violence shelters and
prisons, which affects the most
consistently vulnerable,
impoverished, and abused women.
Defend sex-segregation of
women’s sports, bathrooms, and
locker rooms.
Support the needs of lesbian and
bisexual women.
Support detransitioners in their
struggle to be healed and heard.
Speak out against targeted
censorship and defend free
speech for women.
ABOLISHING MALE VIOLENCE
We
seek to combat the global
epidemic of male violence.
Organize visible resistance to
rape culture.
Fight to obtain legal justice
for survivors of male violence.
Fight against the normalization
of violent or degrading sexual
practices, the eroticization of
women’s pain, and toxic
relationships.
ABOLISHING COMMERCIAL SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION
We
work to abolish prostitution and
pornography as forms of violence
against women.
Provide education and support
for the Nordic Model of
legislation that holds johns and
pimps accountable.
Promote civil remedies for the
harms of the pornography
industry.
ACHIEVING WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE
AUTONOMY
We
defend women’s bodily
sovereignty.
Unapologetically support
abortion on demand.
Fight against surrogacy and the
commodification of women’s
bodies.
Provide educational materials on
relevant legislative proposals.
Promote the visibility of
midwives and doulas.
Encourage women’s knowledge and
self-care of our bodies.
Speak out against women’s
mistreatment in healthcare and
lack of adequate treatment.
