Moving the Needle: 'me too' Movement's Tarana Burke on Gender and Public Policy

This March, The Harris School of Public Policy will explore the intersection of public policy and gender with Tarana Burke, leading activist for racial, economic, and gender equality and the founder of the 'me too' Movement in conversation with Prof. Cathy Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Burke and Cohen will discuss how Burke's truth-telling about sexual assault lead to an international movement, and how that movement has seeded a larger conversation around care for those who have experienced violence. They will explore how scholarship, activism, and policy can work together to impact the Black experience of justice and democracy.