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Activist Tarana Burke adds Her Voice to Haley & Michaels’ ‘Me Too’ Country Song Anthem.

In the era of  #MeToo, musicians are supporting the movement with powerful new anthems. One example: Nashville-based country duo Haley & Michaels, who released a song Me Too — and now a video — in service of the initiative. Shannon Haley and Ryan Michaels have been making moving country records together since 2015. But, for their aptly-titled song, they reached out to…

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#MeToo Founder, Tarana Burke Delivers Women’s Empowerment Keynote Address.

Tarana Burke has dedicated more than two decades of her life to social justice and laying the groundwork for what would eventually become the viral #MeToo Movement. Tarana Burke shared her story of how the movement came to be and clarified common misconceptions about it during the Women’s Empowerment Keynote Address in Fulton Chapel on March 20th, 2018. She said…

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New Coffee Bar wants to put Empowering Women Front and Center.

Marches, MeToo Movements, and sexual-harassment victims coming forward — empowering women is clearly at the forefront of the American consciousness. This new coffee bar takes it one more step forward.  For Joanna Prisco, founder of The Good Witch, a Kickstarter-funded coffee-bar-in-progress that’s “owned, operated by, and dedicated to empowering women,” it was also becoming a mom that propelled her to…

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