SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Tarana Burke

1973 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tarana Burke is the 479th most popular social activist (up from 666th in 2019), the 6,952nd most popular biography from United States (up from 12,907th in 2019) and the 67th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Tarana Burke ranks 479 out of 840. Before her are Donald Watson, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Sugathakumari, Pretty Boy Floyd, Dewi Sartika, and Nelly Diener. After her are Entisar Elsaeed, Lev Chernyi, Helene Stöcker, Gabrielle Petit, Osvaldo Hurtado, and Abdul Sattar Edhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Tarana Burke ranks 156. Before her are Roselyn Sánchez, Yunjin Kim, Tijani Babangida, Christian Horner, Lee Woon-jae, and Oscar De La Hoya. After her are Milan Rapaić, Saïd Taghmaoui, Marija Naumova, Kenichi Serada, Olve Eikemo, and Cuauhtémoc Blanco.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tarana Burke ranks 6,954 out of 20,380. Before her are Jaroslav Pelikan (1923), Ann Sheridan (1915), Louie Anderson (1953), George Bancroft (1882), Buckethead (1969), and India Arie (1975). After her are Kaitlyn Ashley (1971), William Shepherd (1949), Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774), Justin Chambers (1970), Krista Allen (1971), and Yvette Mimieux (1942).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Tarana Burke ranks 67. Before her are Phyllis Schlafly (1924), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), Eugene V. Debs (1855), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), and Pretty Boy Floyd (1904). After her are Sam Childers (1963), Medgar Evers (1925), Lucy Stone (1818), Ruby Bridges (1954), Katie Eder (1950), and Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954).

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