Tarana Burke

Tarana Burke is mainly responsible for bringing in a new era of feminist movements in the 21st century. She launched the #Metoo campaign in 2006, more than ten years before its global version was heard in 2017. Her work has inspired hundreds of millions of people across the world to reveal their sexual violence experiences. It has also helped open the doors for Hollywood Time's Up campaign.

In 2018, Tarana Burke made one of her most eloquent speeches regarding the Me Too campaign at a Ted California event. She said, "So much of what we read about the MeToo movement is about some particularly terrible actors or wicked and isolated behaviors, and such info fails to acknowledge that everyone in a position of authority comes with privilege, which makes people without power more susceptible."

"Students and teachers, coaches and athletics, law enforcement officers and citizens, and parents and children are all examples of interactions in which a significant imbalance of power might exist. But we change this imbalance by voicing against it in tandem and by providing platforms where people can expose the truth."