1. Tarana Burke was born on September 12,1973 and is an American activist from New York City, who started the MeToo movement.
11 Facts About Tarana Burke
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Tarana Burke attended Alabama State University, a historically Black institution and later Auburn University at Montgomery.
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Tarana Burke has spearheaded initiatives addressing issues such as racial discrimination, housing inequality, and economic justice.
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An activist since 1989, Tarana Burke moved to Selma, Alabama, in the late 1990s after graduating college.
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Tarana Burke was a consultant for the 2014 Hollywood movie Selma, based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Tarana Burke was a senior director at Girls for Gender Equity.
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Tarana Burke is a featured speaker at numerous public events across the country.
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Tarana Burke published two instant New York Times Best Sellers: You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience and Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement.
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Tarana Burke says she didn't know what to say, and never saw the girl again.
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Tarana Burke's speaking engagements have included Brown University in February 2018 and at Calvary Episcopal Church about the roots of the movement.
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In 2021, Tarana Burke published a memoir describing the relationship of her activism to experience with leaders of the civil rights movement titled: Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement.