WoLF Staff and Board
WOLF BOARD
Elspeth Cypher
President
Elspeth B. Cypher retired in 2024 from her position on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts as an associate justice. Before serving on the Supreme Judicial Court she was an associate justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court for seventeen years; She has experience as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney and has often taught in several law schools as an adjunct professor. She is passionate about the rights of women and girls and looks for ways to advance women's sovereignty. Her term runs from 2025 - 2028.
Margot Heffernan
Vice President
Margot is a radical feminist and mother with over thirty years of experience providing background medical research and writing for legal and medical professionals. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Science and an MFA in creative nonfiction. Previously, Margot served on the board of a local homeless shelter, where she contributed marketing, fundraising, and speaking skills. Margot is also a caterer who specializes in Sri Lankan cuisine. She plans to use her energy and skills to focus on the harm done to women and children by gender ideology, prostitution, and pornography. Her term runs from 2023 - 2027.
NK Stade
Treasurer
NK is an attorney and a mother, among other things. She has been a lawyer for almost thirty years, practicing in government, in the private sector, and as a solo practitioner. She keeps an active pro bono practice that has included representing victims of domestic violence against their abusers and has also worked with organizations that oppose the experimental medicalization of gender-distressed kids. NK received her BA from Columbia College and her JD from the Columbia University School of Law. Her term runs from 2023 - 2027.
Sherrie Taha
Secretary
Sherrie has always been committed to trying to make the world a fair and more equitable place for everyone. Her experience and advocacy in the domestic violence and sexual assault arena, as a Union Officer for her local ATU, through political engagement with the public and elected officials, and as an educator and artist have all contributed to her belief in the critical importance of empowering women and children in particular in order to make the world a better place for everyone. Originally a Midwesterner, Sherrie currently resides in Oregon.
Our Team
Lauren Bone
Legal Director
Lauren (Adams) Bone has nearly a decade of legal experience in family law, non-profit law, and general legal practice.
Lauren began working as the legal director for WoLF in 2020. She has served as general counsel, led legislative and regulatory advocacy, filed amici briefs, drafted model legislation, and coordinated impact litigation. Lauren co-authored the Women’s Bill of Rights with IWV and is co-counsel on Chandler v. CDCR, challenging mixed-sex housing policies in California prisons.
Lierre Kieth
WoLF Founder & Special Envoy
Lierre Keith is an American writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist. She founded WoLF in 2014 and has remained involved as a board member, and now as WoLF’s special envoy and spokesperson.
She is the author the highly acclaimed The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability and co-author with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet (Seven Stories Press, 2011). She’s also been arrested six times.
Naima Schuller
Operations Director
Naima came to WoLF with 25 years of administrative experience. She has served on nonprofit boards and helped launch nonprofits in the local food, environmental, and arts sectors.
After being cancelled by an organization in her hometown in 2017, and again in 2019 while pursuing birth doula training, where she felt pressured to alter her language about women’s sex-based reality, she began to research women’s organizations. She wants to focus her energy to help ensure that women and girls retain and expand their rights.
She has been with WoLF since early 2021.
Jasmin Faulk
Executive Director
Jasmin Faulk is a published author, writer, speaker, educator, and advocate. Born and raised in Saudi Arabia to an Italian mother and Saudi father, her lifelong commitment to women's rights and radical feminism is rooted in lived experience. With a background in higher education and leadership, and a Master's in Public Administration with a concentration in Public Policy & Nonprofit Management, she has dedicated her career to public service, education, and advancing the rights of women and girls through principled advocacy, coalition building, and meaningful public engagement. A frequent media guest and speaker, Jasmin is passionate about fostering thoughtful dialogue on women's rights, free expression, critical-thinking values, and the dangers of extremism. When she's not working, she is globetrotting, camping with her dog Gaia, or exploring the outdoors.
