Vanessa Renae

Activist, Business leader, Change agent, Idea generator, Social entrepreneur

As the Co-Founder of GirlTREK, Vanessa advocates for health and healing justice of Black women across America. Vanessa has been recognized among the top 1% of social innovators in the world, serving as an Echoing Green and Aspen Institute Fellow.

Joy & Justice

One million Black women living longer, healthier lives by walking, talking, and solving problems together in communities all across America.

Healing Justice, Health Justice, Social Justice

GirlTREK was named a 2018 winner of TED's Audacious Project, a prestigious, collaborative funding initiative that supports bold solutions to the world’s most urgent challenges. TED's investment helped to train 10,000 proximate leaders in health and wellbeing topics and engage 1 million Black women to take the pledge to walk their way to longer, healthier lives

Being kind.