Shawna Potter

Shawna Potter is a musician, activist, educator, and writer. She fronts the political hardcore punk band War On Women, is ordained to perform wedding ceremonies, and repairs music gear at Big Crunch Amp Design. The Founder and current Advisory Board Member of Hollaback! Baltimore, Shawna trains venues for their Safer Spaces Campaign, which she co-founded. She's discussed topics like feminism, safer spaces, bystander intervention, women in music, and more, in outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, Noisey, Kerrang, Revolver, Newsweek, and New Noise Magazine. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner and a porch cat that visits when the weather's nice.