Brandi Wolfe – Staff Attorney & Director
My name is Brandi Wolfe. I graduated law school May of 2020 at the age of 36. I was a nontraditional law student that always knew I wanted to help people and work for a nonprofit. I passed the Bar Exam December 4th, 2020. I was sworn in by Texas Supreme Court Justice Brett Busby on December 12th, 2020.
I spent 2.5 months doing appellate research for my mentor, sister, and friend Former Judge Renee Yanta. I then took a job with a local domestic violence nonprofit doing protective orders, divorces, and custody cases for the poor and indigent under a grant. I worked at this job for nearly 7 months before I decided that I wanted to strike out on my own.
I had a vision of running a nonprofit that focused on the indigent, poor, and those women that did not have access to their marital funds. I had a vision of helping survivors go back to school, growing financial literacy, realizing their mental health was important, and learning to put themselves first. The initial step in that process was getting to feel safe, so I knew that protective orders were where I wanted to focus my base advocacy.
This is a family-ran nonprofit. I’ve been told a few times that I needed to get political persons or power-players on my Board of Directors to help embolden fundraising, but honestly, my main goal at this very moment is to make enough to secure a CPA, a grant writer, and pay myself a salary so that I can continue facilitating justice by way of protective orders here in Bexar County. We have no political aspirations nor should a nonprofit.
I just want to help the state of domestic violence in San Antonio. I just want to make people feel better about their decision to get out.
Women’s Empowerment Legal Center Goals:
1. Facilitate protective orders in the civil courts for those who the DA chose not to obtain one or for those who have been too scared to call the police or involve the criminal side.
2. Facilitate self-esteem, growth, and boundaries with the survivors so that the order of protection remains just that: an order of protection. Sometimes it can be difficult for survivors to not go back to the reality that they were so used to. Mental health work, workshops, meditation, mindfulness and self-defense classes will be offered.
3. Facilitate financial literacy through education, workshops and one on one counseling. So many in domestic violence situations have never had access to the funds in the relationship, never had jobs, never had a clue of how their money worked. I want to start with the basics of having a bank account, building your credit…. and I want to progress to learning about investments, protecting yourself, and securing independence.
4. Facilitate educational growth by partnering with local colleges and counseling programs so that survivors can see education is valuable and obtainable. The number one way to grow out of an oppressive situation is education. This does not always mean college. This does not always mean grades. But education and growth of some sort are key. Myself and my team will work with survivors to put together an action plan so that educational goals that they never dreamed possible, come to life.

Dusty Wolfe – Director
After traveling the world for 30 years as a pro-wrestler, Dusty Wolfe saw the plights of this world. Years spent with the WWE on tour while balancing a home life, showed him the importance of a healthy, stable home life. Mr. Wolfe is now a college instructor teaching History and attempting to be involved in the community by helping his wife run the domestic violence non-profit.
Mr. Wolfe’s goals are to help those that are survivors of domestic violence feel empowered enough to get back on their feet, fight the fight, and go back to school or find solid footing or ground.
Mr. Wolfe hates a bully. Domestic abusers are bullies. He wishes to help all survivors learn how to become independent and stand up to their bullies.