The SWOP USA Board of Directors is renewed each year at the organization's annual meeting which occurs soon after the end of the first quarter in April. Board members can serve for a total of three
consecutive years before having to cycle off for at least one year. Currently the maximum number of board members is nine with additional members on a non-voting advisory committee.

Liz Coplen: Liz is currently the board chair of SWOP-USA. She has also been active in the Social Justice Task Force of Desiree Alliance. She is proactice about the representation of issues of relevance to street sex workers and people with experience of incarceration. In 2008, for example, she headed Project Revoke, a project working towards revoking the mandatory minimum sentencing laws for prostitutionⁱ in Arizona.

Tara Sawyer: Tara is a member of SWOP NORCAL and volunteers for a wide range of groups working for justice/safety/rights such as the Safe Call Project. Zie is an optimistic individual who believes loving everyone and everything is possible. As a transgendered person with genderqueer sparkles, formerly homeless and sex worker, zie works to serve these communities and to bring their issues to groups such as SWOP USA.

Cris Sardina: Cris is a co-coordinator of the Desiree Alliance and is one of the founders of a progressive re-entry program in Arizona, the Women's Re-entry Network (WREN). She is passionate about the inclusion of the voices of people with experience of incarceration and the inclusion of other marginalized groups in rights based organizing.

Penelope Saunders: Penelope has been the executive director of several different service providers in the US and beyond including Different Avenues and HIPS in Washington, D.C. She currently is the director of the non-profit organization, the Best Practices Policy Project, that provides policy analysis and capacity building for organizations and individuals working with sex workers and related vulnerable groups.

Dara Barlin: Dara is the Associate Director of Policy for the New Teacher Center, a leading non-profit focusing on improving equity and excellence in public education, working to build relationships with
funders and policy makers at the local, state, and federal level. Prior to this, she worked at the Ford Foundation as a Program Associate and in a think tank in London called the Institute for Public Policy Research. She has also worked as Lead Organizer and Negotiator for the American Federation of Teachers fighting for the rights of school support personnel such as custodial staff, maintenance workers and food service employees in Compton, Hawthorne, and East Los Angeles.

Kirsten Aspengren: Kirsten is currently the secretary of the board of directors. She is an advocate for low income sex workers and the homeless. She worked for many years in New York at FROST’D (Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases). She is also a PONY (Prostitutes of New York) member since 1995 and maintains a New York connection from Oregon via SWOP-NYC and SWANK.

Jill McCracken: Jill McCracken is currently serving as treasurer to the board of directors. She is an active member of the Desiree Alliance. She is also a researcher and educator. She received her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona in 2007.

Acire Roche: Acire has been active in SWOP across the nation via SWOP Chicago and SWOP chapters in California. She is currently an activist in Portland, Oregon.