About Girl Trek
Far more than a walking group, GirlTrek is a life-saving sisterhood. We are a campaign to heal intergenerational trauma, fight systemic racism and transform Black lives. As women organize walking teams, they also mobilize community members to support advocacy efforts and lead a Civil Rights-inspired health movement.
Powered by the love and momentum of Black women everywhere walking out of their front doors in solidarity, GirlTrek will unleash a mass movement for health justice. Energized by the discipline of daily walking, we will collectively organize to shift policy, change systems and—at scale—solve the seemingly intractable problems facing our daughters. We will not ask permission to save our own lives. As we press toward the mark of true liberation with a 5-point health justice agenda. AND we will never forget that our foremothers sacrificed their very bodies for American justice. We will divest from any systems that requires our silence or sacrifice. And we will always remember that our walking is grounded in deep satisfaction, radical rest, hollering happiness, and generational healing. Our joy is our resistance.
And in our own quiet moments, each of us will open our front doors to let the sunshine in. We will walk to heal our bodies, inspire our daughters, and reclaim the streets of our neighborhoods. Like Harriet, we may have to walk alone. …to quicken change or to slow down demands, to listen to our own heartbeats or to release to the sky. And when we find that kind of strength – to hope – to take that solo walk – to step out of on faith toward our healthiest, most fulfilled lives, the mission then becomes deeply personal-to come back and get a sisterGirlTrek is a life-saving sisterhood.
Locations
Primary Office Location
1800 Wyoming Ave NW Floor 2 Washington DC 20009
(202) 808-8419
