Soma Snakeoil

Soma Snakeoil is Executive Director and Cofounder of The Sidewalk Project, which specializes in resources for street-based sex workers and survivors. She is a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project. Soma’s passion for the houseless community comes from lived experience as a long-term former person who uses drugs (PWUD), being unhoused- including with her child, and over 20 years of the spectrum of sex work, including survival sex. Soma is a survivor of sexual assault, intimate partner violence. She uses her personal experiences to inform deep advocacy for survivors and their intersecting issues.