Tarana Burke was born on September 12,1973 and is an American activist from New York City, who started the MeToo movement.
15 Facts About Tarana Burke
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In 2006, Burke began using MeToo to help other women with similar experiences to stand up for themselves.
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Tarana Burke was born in The Bronx, New York, and raised in the area.
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Tarana Burke's mother supported her recovery from these violent acts and encouraged her to be involved in the community.
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Tarana Burke attended Alabama State University then transferred and graduated from Auburn University at Montgomery.
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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 decided to be in service and shape the movement to make it about "empowermental empathy".
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Tarana Burke received the 2018 Prize for Courage from The Ridenhour Prizes, which is awarded to individuals who demonstrate courageous defense of the public interest and passionate commitment to social justice.
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Tarana Burke is currently Senior Director at Girls for Gender Equity.
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Tarana Burke had two books published in 2021: 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 is the Senior Director of Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn, which strives to help young women of color increase their overall development through various programs and classes.
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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.