Tarana is from the Swahili word for "star" or possibly the Persian *tarāneh* ("song, ballad"). **Tarana Burke (born 1973)** — **American civil rights activist who founded the Me Too movement in 2006** at the Just Be Inc. youth organization in Selma, Alabama, to support survivors of sexual violence. **The phrase went viral globally in October 2017 after Alyssa Milano's tweet about Harvey Weinstein** — Burke's decade of earlier work was then recognized as the movement's origin. **Time Person of the Year ("The Silence Breakers," 2017); recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize (2019)**. Author of *Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement* (2021).
Subject of countless feminist organizing histories.
Tarana reduces to six — the number of Me Too founder.