Shanté Wolfe

Shanté Wolfe-Sisson (born November 24, 1993 in Augusta, Georgia) is a social activist, field strategist and DJ.

Shanté was born to Vanessa Miller and Franklin Alfred Hodge of Georgia. They were adopted by Elizabeth Wolfe at age 8 and attended Glenn Hills High School in Augusta, graduating in 2012. They attended Savannah State University pursuing a criminal justice major before moving to Tuskegee in 2014.

Wolfe became involved with the Alabama Alliance for Healthy Youth in Montgomery and Birmingham, lobbying for comprehensive sex education in school curricula. On February 9, 2015 Shanté and Tori Sisson became the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Alabama, appearing at the Montgomery County courthouse immediately following a federal court ruling that required the state to recognize such marriages. Their legal ceremony followed a year after their spiritual wedding.

Wolfe-Sisson was hired as an LGBTQ Rights and Special Litigation paralegal at the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016. During the 2016 election they volunteered with the NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi. Later they founded BLK Pearl, an organization which secures safe learning and leisure environments for LGBTQ women of color, and which sponsored the 2017 and 2019 Women's Marches.

Wolfe-Sisson has also provided music for social justice events as DJ BLK Alchemy. Wolfe-Sisson provided music for the celebratory gathering when Roy Moore was suspended from the Alabama State Supreme Court by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary in September 2016, for the 2017 Women's March in Birmingham, and for the 2018 Birmingham Black Pride Party. Wolfe-Sisson was also one of the founders of the Birmingham Committee for Truth and Reconciliation which organized a public event for Angela Davis at Boutwell Auditorium in February 2019 after the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's board of directors rescinded her Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award.

Notes

1. Wolfe-Sisson uses the pronouns "they", "them" and "theirs".

External links

• Shanté Wolfe-Sisson on Linkedin.com