Teresa Shook

Teresa Shook

Founder of the Women’s March

Teresa Shook is a retired lawyer in Hawaii and the founder of the Women's March. Shook created a Facebook event for a march in Washington, D. C. following the inauguration of Donald Trump. Within a single day, hundreds of thousands of individuals were "attending" the march's Facebook event. This surge in interest was a catalyst for creating the organization that led to the 2017 Women's March. (1)

In November 2018, Shook criticized the leadership of the Women’s March national organization as being “anti-Semitic and anti-gay rights”. Shook called for the Women’s March leadership to step down. (1)

Shook was presented with the American Spirit Award for Citizen Activism by Silda Wall Spitzer at the The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.

Twitter: @TeresaShookWM

Teresa Shook has lived in Hana, Maui since 2000. She is the Founder of the Women's March on Washington which brought more than five million people around the world together to stand in solidarity for women's rights and a far, just and inclusive world.

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Read more:

Carrie Scozarro, ‘Women's March founder Teresa Shook shares her unlikely path to activism as she visits Spokane’, Pacific Northwest Insider, 7 March 2019

Marissa Lang, ‘Anger over Farrakhan ties prompts calls for Women’s March leaders to resign’, The Washington Post, 21 November 2018

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(1) Material from Wikipedia.