23 Facts About Tamika Mallory

Tamika Mallory was one of the leading organizers of the 2017 Women's March, for which she and her three other co-chairs were recognized in the TIME 100 that year.

Tamika Mallory received the Coretta Scott King Legacy Award from the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom in 2018.

Tamika Mallory was born in Harlem, a neighborhood of New York City's Manhattan borough, to Stanley and Voncile Tamika Mallory.

Tamika Mallory grew up in the Manhattanville Houses in Manhattan and moved to Co-op City in the Bronx when she was 14.

Tamika Mallory's parents were activists and founding members of Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network, a leading civil rights organization throughout the United States.

Tamika Mallory became a staff member of NAN when she was 15 years old and later was named its executive director in 2009.

Tamika Mallory explains that her experience with NAN taught her to react to this tragedy with activism.

In 2018, Tamika Mallory drew criticism for her attendance at an event with, and past praise for, controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, which prompted calls for her resignation from the 2019 Women's March.

At age 11, Tamika Mallory became a member of NAN to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement.

Tamika Mallory went on to become the youngest Executive Director at NAN in 2011.

In 2014, Tamika Mallory was selected to serve on the transition committee of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Tamika Mallory served as the co-chair for a new initiative through the Crisis Management System, Gun Violence Awareness Month.

Tamika Mallory is the president of Tamika Mallory Consulting, a strategic planning and event management firm in New York City.

Tamika Mallory is on the board of directors for Gathering for Justice, an organization aimed at ending child incarceration and working to eliminate policies that produce mass incarceration.

In 2018, Tamika Mallory criticized Starbucks for including the Anti-Defamation League, an organization whose stated mission is to "fight anti-Semitism and all forms of hate", in a company-wide racial bias training after the arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.

Tamika Mallory explains that she took on this responsibility because she "wanted to ensure that Black women's voices are upheld, uplifted, and that our issues are addressed, but this cannot happen unless we take a seat at the table".

Tamika Mallory explains that they partnered with Planned Parenthood because they "provide women with life-saving health services".

Tamika Mallory was one of the co-presidents of the 2019 Women's March.

Tamika Mallory assumed leadership of the march along with her co-chairs from the 2017 March: Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez, and Bob Bland.

Tamika Mallory has been criticized for her relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and support for Assata Shakur, a former Black Liberation Army member convicted of murder.

On February 25,2018, Tamika Mallory attended a Saviours' Day speech led by Farrakhan where he made various antisemitic remarks, and later posted positive comments about the event on social media accounts.

In December 2018, The New York Times reported that "charges of anti-Semitism" stemming partly from the Farrakhan issue as well as Tamika Mallory's allegedly berating a Jewish organizer of the Women's March "are now roiling the movement and overshadowing plans for more marches next month".

Tamika Mallory alleged that in Minneapolis paid instigators were responsible for property damage and arson.