We advocate, educate, research, and convene community in service to women and girls for a more equitable South Carolina.
OUR POWER.
OUR FUTURE.
WREN’S 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT
October 23, 2026
Charleston, SC
Data-Backed Advocacy
Lasting change requires more than good intentions. It requires evidence. WREN conducts and translates research that helps illuminate the realities facing women, girls, and families across South Carolina, ensuring advocacy is grounded in facts, not assumptions. We analyze emerging issues, identify systemic barriers, and produce accessible, action-oriented research that informs public policy, equips advocates, and empowers communities with the information they need to drive change. By making complex data understandable and publicly available, we strengthen conversations, shape policy solutions, and build a stronger case for a more equitable South Carolina.
Advocate With Us
Change happens when people take action together. Whether you’re contacting your legislators, attending an event, sharing your story, or mobilizing your community, WREN provides the tools and resources to help you advocate with confidence. Explore policy briefs, action alerts, fact sheets, legislative updates, advocacy guides, and opportunities to engage on issues like reproductive freedom, economic justice, workplace equity, childcare, and civic participation. No matter where you are on your advocacy journey, there’s a place for your voice in this movement.
WREN’s Impact
For a decade, WREN has helped shape a stronger South Carolina by advancing policies, developing leaders, strengthening communities, and creating opportunities for collective action. We believe lasting change happens when research informs advocacy, communities are equipped to lead, and people come together around a shared vision for the future. Every program, partnership, and policy effort is part of building a state where women and girls have the freedom, opportunity, and power to shape their own futures.
Use Your Voice
No one understands the challenges facing South Carolina better than the people living them every day.
That’s why WREN starts by listening.
The Community Voice Survey is one of the ways we learn directly from people across the state about the issues affecting their lives, the barriers they face, and the changes they want to see. Your experiences help guide our research, strengthen our advocacy, and inform the policies we champion.
When you share your perspective, you’re helping build a future where community voices shape public policy.
Support WREN
Your tax-deductible donations power our work to advocate for inclusive policies that promote gender justice and racial equity across South Carolina.
We hereby proclaim:
The land which we occupy today is the traditional ancestral home of the Edisto Kusso-Natchez, Santee, Pee Dee, Waccamaw, Catawba, Lower Cherokee, Sumter Band of Cheraw, Santee, Beaver Creek, Chickasaw, Wassamasaw, Uchee, Westoe, Yemassee, Wimbee, Combahee, Sissipahaw, Ashepoo, Escamacu, Stono, Etiwan, Kiawah, Wando, Sewee, Winyah, Wateree, Eno, Shakori, Sugaree, Chicora, Waxhaw, and many other Indigenous peoples of South Carolina, past and present.
Without them, we would not have access to this space. We take this opportunity to thank the original caretakers, and we honor with gratitude the beings of the land and water, as well. We do not claim to be those who came first, for it was our siblings, the Four Legs, Winged, Swimming, and Standing Relatives who were the first inhabitants, and our first Ancestors. They were created first, to be our teachers and our guides. This calls us to commit to continuing in the ways of our ancestors, to remember how to be better relatives to the land we inhabit, as well as protectors of the water and air; all that is crucial to life.