Watercolor titled Unite, Empower, Inspire: people holding hands in a circle, two people planting a young tree, and friends celebrating under string lights, with dogs and butterflies, below soft Ozark hills
Patricia Mikkelson

Uniting, Empowering, Inspiring: Three Words at the Heart of the Animal Earth Alliance

Watercolor titled Unite, Empower, Inspire: people holding hands in a circle, two people planting a young tree, and friends celebrating under string lights, with dogs and butterflies, below soft Ozark hills
Holding hands in a circle, planting a young tree together, and celebrating under the string lights: that is what uniting, empowering and inspiring look like to me.

Across the top of this blog are three words: uniting, empowering and inspiring. I didn’t choose them lightly. Each one is a promise of what the Animal Earth Alliance hopes to be for everyone who works for the animals and the earth.

In this article I share what each word means to me: finding each other and working together even when we don’t agree on everything, helping every group do what it already does only stronger, and keeping each other going by sharing our stories and celebrating each other.

Read the full article on the Animal Earth Alliance blog, and see our Vision and Values.

I wrote this together with Claude, an AI from Anthropic. I brought my ideas and experiences, and Claude helped write it and expand the research.

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