Shae from Syringe Service Mail Program

Shae Dalrymple is a harm reduction activist and writer with extensive lived experience and a passion for human rights, especially bodily autonomy. She graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor's of science in journalism in 2012 and spent several years working as a reporter, writer, and editor at newspapers covering Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. After witnessing too many of her friends die from accidental overdoses, Shae decided to pursue a career in harm reduction. In 2019 she joined Harm Reduction Ohio as Communications Director and Distribution Manager, where she helped establish a free, statewide mail order naloxone program. In 2024, she returned to SC and started working with Challenges Inc to revamp its harm reduction mail service, which has grown steadily since, providing life-saving sterile supplies, test strips, naloxone, and harm reduction resources; free of judgement and barriers. Shae is proud of her Appalachian, Rust Belt roots, but she adores South Carolina (especially the Lowcountry) and is grateful to be of service here. In her free time, she enjoys the beach, concerts, and watching her partner win at dirt track late model races. Shae is the Community Distribution Specialist who runs the Syringe Service Mail Program (SSMP) for Challenges Inc SC. She works remotely out of the Shae Shed in the Lowcountry of South Carolina and we are thrilled to get her up to Challenges Inc headquarters for this episode. To learn more about our work visit www.challengesinc.orgFor Challenges Inc SC merch visit https://challengesinc.org/shopThank you to The Counter Narrative Project for making this podcast possible. Visit https://thecounternarrative.org/ to learn more about their work. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-needle-and-the-narrative--1518412/support.