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Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in the community. Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to tweet the words if they had experienced abuse and harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases. The phrase and hashtag quickly developed into a broad-based, and eventually international viral movement.
Time named Burke, among a group of other prominent activists dubbed "the silence breakers", as the Time Person of the Year for 2017. Burke founded me too. International in 2018 as a container for the movement and serves as Chief Vision Officer.
In 2020, Harvard University published a case study on Burke.
Burke, a native of The Bronx, New York, attended Catholic primary school and Herbert H. Lehman High School. Her passion for community organizing began in the late 1980s when, as a young girl, she joined a youth development organization called 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement. She attended Alabama State University, a historically Black institution and later Auburn University at Montgomery . While in college, she organized press conferences and protests focused on racial justice. She has spearheaded initiatives addressing issues such as racial discrimination, housing inequality, and economic justice.
An activist since 1989, Burke moved to Selma, Alabama, in the late 1990s after graduating college.
After working with survivors of sexual violence, Burke developed the nonprofit "Just Be Inc" in 2003, which was an all-girls program for Black girls aged 12 to 18. In 2006, Burke founded the MeToo movement and began using the phrase "Me Too" to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society.
In 2008, she moved to Philadelphia and worked at Art Sanctuary Philadelphia and other non-profits. She 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. and John Lewis.
Burke was a senior director at Girls for Gender Equity. Burke is a featured speaker at numerous public events across the country. Burke published two instant New York Times Best Sellers: You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (co-authored with Brené Brown for Random House, April 2021) and Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (Flatiron Books, September 2021). She is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Vision Officer for me too. International.
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Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in the community. Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to tweet the words if they had experienced abuse and harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases. The phrase and hashtag quickly developed into a broad-based, and eventually international viral movement.
Time named Burke, among a group of other prominent activists dubbed "the silence breakers", as the Time Person of the Year for 2017. Burke founded me too. International in 2018 as a container for the movement and serves as Chief Vision Officer.
In 2020, Harvard University published a case study on Burke.
Burke, a native of The Bronx, New York, attended Catholic primary school and Herbert H. Lehman High School. Her passion for community organizing began in the late 1980s when, as a young girl, she joined a youth development organization called 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement. She attended Alabama State University, a historically Black institution and later Auburn University at Montgomery . While in college, she organized press conferences and protests focused on racial justice. She has spearheaded initiatives addressing issues such as racial discrimination, housing inequality, and economic justice.
An activist since 1989, Burke moved to Selma, Alabama, in the late 1990s after graduating college.
After working with survivors of sexual violence, Burke developed the nonprofit "Just Be Inc" in 2003, which was an all-girls program for Black girls aged 12 to 18. In 2006, Burke founded the MeToo movement and began using the phrase "Me Too" to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society.
In 2008, she moved to Philadelphia and worked at Art Sanctuary Philadelphia and other non-profits. She 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. and John Lewis.
Burke was a senior director at Girls for Gender Equity. Burke is a featured speaker at numerous public events across the country. Burke published two instant New York Times Best Sellers: You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (co-authored with Brené Brown for Random House, April 2021) and Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (Flatiron Books, September 2021). She is currently the Co-Founder and Chief Vision Officer for me too. International.
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