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Stephanie Wolf

Stephanie Wolf is Media Manager for the Women’s Media Center and a freelance communications expert, copy editor and writer. She develops and conducts media campaigns for such nonprofit, entertainment and health care organizations as American Foundation for the Blind, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Henley-Putnam University, and Community Service Society of New York, where she helped develop policy reports regarding the state of poverty and higher education. Additionally, Wolf has served as freelance copy editor for Daily Candy, POZ and Real Health magazines.

Wolf was the recipient of the 2001/2002 NJ Women’s Press Club Award for Achievement in Journalism. While an undergraduate at Rutgers University’s Douglass College, she developed a strong interest in women’s studies and regularly participated in Take Back the Night, an internationally held march and rally intended as a protest and direct action against rape and other forms of violence against women.

Recent Posts by Stephanie Wolf

The Female Factor: Women’s Influence Worldwide

March 15, 2010 – 10:51 am

Women of the world, unite: The International Herald Tribune has launched a year-long series called The Female Factor, a project examining the most recent shifts in women’s power, prominence and impact on societies around the world. The series aims to take readers on surprising journeys where women’s worlds intersect, whether they are in the western [...]

Repro Rights Watch at Health Care Summit

February 25, 2010 – 12:52 pm

Not Under the Bus is closely monitoring today’s Bipartisan Health Care Summit today for any means by which the proposed bill works to rollback women’s access to reproductive choice.
When: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Where: The Blair House in Washington, DC
Watch: The meeting will be open to the press and streamed at WhiteHouse.gov/live
The Huffington Post is also watching closely, [...]

Jehmu Takes On “Game Change”

January 22, 2010 – 4:35 pm

With her political strategist hat on, WMC President Jehmu Greene was featured on Fox and Friends last week to comment on Game Change, a “tell-all” exposé of the 2008 presidential campaigns, authored by political reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Among a myriad of other things, the book quotes Senator Harry Reid in 2008, [...]

Take Action on the 37th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade

January 22, 2010 – 11:46 am

Friday, January 22, 2010 marks the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade. Thirty-seven years ago, our Supreme Court ruled in favor if a woman’s right to choose and maintained that abortion must be available when needed to protect a woman’s health. We acknowledge this milestone with no misconception that the [...]

Sarah Weddington: On the 37th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

January 22, 2010 – 9:32 am

By Stephanie Wolf
The author, who learned in high school about the Supreme Court case that gave women reproductive choice and control over their lives, talks to the lawyer who won that victory.
Yesterday, I had an opportunity to sit down with Sarah Weddington, the attorney who successfully represented Jane Roe in Roe v. Wade. I can [...]

Hard Labor

December 21, 2009 – 4:51 pm

With the explosion of reality television — and, arguably, the advent of Fox News — it’s getting increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction in the media. In response to often clichéd depictions of childbirth — where screaming mothers, stern doctors and panicky dads are nearly always main characters — filmmaker/educator Vicki Elson released a new documentary, “Laboring Under [...]

Legal Matters

December 15, 2009 – 4:19 pm

Sonia Sotomayor made history last week as the first Supreme Court Justice to use the phrase “undocumented immigrant” with her debut decision in the case Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter, No. 08-678. And immigration advocates everywhere are touting Justice Sotomayor’s choice as a step in the right direction.
University of California law professor Kevin Johnson explains [...]