T. Morgan Dixon

T. Morgan Dixon is CEO of GirlTrek, the largest health movement in America for Black women. Dixon co-founded GirlTrek with a college friend, Vanessa Garrison, after the two women became accountability buddies for taking daily 30-minute walks.

Today, GirlTrek is a movement with more than 1 million members who use walking as a practical first step to inspire healthy living and healthier communities. GirlTrek is a campaign to heal intergenerational trauma, fight systemic racism, and transform Black lives. The simple solution of a walking community, Dixon says, is both “radically powerful and transformational for the health crisis at large.”

In addition to serving as GirlTrek’s CEO, Dixon co-hosts the podcast, Black History Bootcamp — which has nearly 2 million downloads. She has been awarded fellowships by Echoing Green, Ashoka, and the Aspen Institute, has given two TED Talks with Garrison, and is a visiting innovator at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She currently works from West Africa, in Ghana, uniting women and girls worldwide for health justice.

About GirlTrek
GirlTrek is the largest nonprofit organization for Black women and girls in the United States, with a mission of increasing the life expectancy of Black women worldwide by 10 years, in 10 years. According to CEO T. Morgan Dixon: “GirlTrek encourages Black women to invest in radical self-care through daily walking. With a membership of over 1 million and growing, GirlTrek is on a mission to heal our bodies, inspire our daughters, and reclaim the streets of our neighborhoods.”