Her grandfather, Joseph emigrated from Bessarabia to the USA. She studied at Weslevan University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and is the recipient of four awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, two from the Fair Media Council, and of the 2012 Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study. In 2014, she was given a "What Better Looks Like" Award for making a "com-passionate and innovative contribution" to improving the world, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation named her a finalist for the Trust Women Journalist Award. In 2013, Foreign Policy magazine named Wolfe one of its "FP Twitterati 100", calling her an "authority on gender and conflict"; Action on Armed Violence included her in their list "Top 100: The Most Influential Journalists Covering Armed Violence"; and the UK's Daily Telegraph named her "an awesome woman you need in your life on Twitter". She is a former columnist at Foreign Policy magazine, and director and creator of WMC Women UnderSiegeProject.org, a journalism initiative on sexualized violence in conflict originated by Gloria Steinem at the Women's Media Center in New York. The project included a live, crowd-sourced map of sexualized violence in Syria. She is also the creator and editor of WMC Climate, which positions the people climate change affects the most - women and people of color - front and center.