Savannah Sly is the founder and co-director of New Moon Network, a non-profit that strives to strengthen the movement for sex workers’ rights through funding, technical assistance, and leadership development.
She currently serves on the board of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, the only U.S. organization dedicated to defending sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.
She also serves on the global steering committee of the Sex Work Donor Collaborative and has been a staunch advocate for the rights and welfare of people in the sex trade since 2013.
With both lived and studied experience, she highlights the impacts of criminalization, surveillance, discrimination, and stigma on sex workers and promotes holistic solutions to combat sex trade exploitation.
She has also played a significant role as a coalition organizer for the ACLU’s Tech Equity Coalition. She has worked with grassroots sex worker initiatives like the OldProProject, SWOP-Seattle, and the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA, where she once served as board president.
Her writing has been featured in publications such as Brookings, Teen Vogue, and Psychology Today.
New Moon Network supports sex worker and survivor-led organizations in the U.S. that work to improve the rights and welfare of those with lived experience in the sex trade.
As an intermediary fund, New Moon provides financial resources to the sex workers’ rights movement and assists grassroots leaders with grant writing, fiscal sponsorship, and budgeting.
The New Moon team also advises corporations, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals on identifying impactful projects and opportunities.
Since its inception in 2022, New Moon has brokered investments of $1.5 million into 50+ sex worker-led organizations in the US.
You can follow them on X @NewMoonNetwork
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