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GirlTREK app
Track your walks, find your crew, and join the community.
This is our "hub" of the movement.
Never ask permission to save your own life
GirlTREK organizes Black women to live longer, healthier lives.
On average, Black women die nearly a decade earlier than women of other races — from chronic diseases and three preventable causes we call The Three Deadly I’s: Inactivity, Isolation and Injustice.
Too many of us aren’t moving. Too many of us are going through it alone. And too many of us are living in communities where the system was never built for us to thrive.
GirlTREK exists to change that.
Our answer: WALK. TALK. SOLVE.
Walk to reduce inactivity
A daily walking habit is one of the most powerful things a Black woman can do for her body and her mind. GirlTREK makes it joyful, social, and sustainable so that it actually sticks.
Talk to eliminate isolation
Walking together is always more than just a walk. Honest connection happens. Real relationships form. The isolation that was slowly stealing our health gets replaced by a crew of women who show up for each other.
Solve to combat injustice
This is where personal health becomes collective power. GirlTREK members take their energy into their communities — organizing, advocating, and leading the kind of place-based change that makes Black neighborhoods healthier, safer, and more just.
Take a walk.
Join the movement.
Here’s how to get started:
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Join your city's Facebook GROUPS
Beyond the physical and mental health benefits, we use walking as a strategy for community-wide healing. We rejoice in the very vibration of taking a walk—a chance to slow down, to reconnect with our families, reclaim our streets, heal generations, rewrite history, and advance real solutions for health justice.
We know walking changes things. A personal discipline of daily walking can transform your life. GirlTREK is here to help you start walking towards your healthiest life today and we’ve curated special resources to help encourage and guide you.
Where to next?
Start
Your Journey
Get connected to your region, find your community, and set yourself up to begin.
Walk your
way to health
Build a daily walking habit with tools, challenges, and sisters who will keep you moving.
TALK
with your crew
Find your people. Join or start a crew in your area, walk together on Sisterhood Saturdays, and support each other.
SOLVE for
your community
Show up for your community through place-based projects and local advocacy.