Massive applause for kickstarting Allied Scholars for Animals! You’re making waves in an area that, honestly, has been overlooked for quite some time.
In my college years, student groups and support for college activists were everywhere! I was so supported and motivated by THL’s involvement in my college club and cage-free egg campaign. Over the years, it feels like we’ve strayed from that path. (THL discontinued their campus outreach program in 2020).
Universities are crammed full of motivated, bright minds ready to make a change, so it’s a missed opportunity not to tap into that resource. It’s refreshing to see you recognizing this and taking charge to mobilize these potential change-makers.
Thanks for stepping up and best of luck with this endeavor. I’m sure we’re going to see some incredible work coming from this initiative!
Thank you very much Constance! I was a PETA camp rep and I had my friend to apply for THL student rep program. But even those programs where not focused on building a sustainable community and were mostly focused on training individuals or supporting certain campaigns!
We want to not only support individuals, but also build a sustainable community and infrastructure! This current trend, where student orgs come and go every 2-3 years, and each student org is doing a different thing, is not effective and doesn’t work, yet as you mentioned, there’s tremendous potential in universities. People whom if we invest on, can change the system!
Massive applause for kickstarting Allied Scholars for Animals! You’re making waves in an area that, honestly, has been overlooked for quite some time.
In my college years, student groups and support for college activists were everywhere! I was so supported and motivated by THL’s involvement in my college club and cage-free egg campaign. Over the years, it feels like we’ve strayed from that path. (THL discontinued their campus outreach program in 2020).
Universities are crammed full of motivated, bright minds ready to make a change, so it’s a missed opportunity not to tap into that resource. It’s refreshing to see you recognizing this and taking charge to mobilize these potential change-makers.
Thanks for stepping up and best of luck with this endeavor. I’m sure we’re going to see some incredible work coming from this initiative!
Thank you very much Constance! I was a PETA camp rep and I had my friend to apply for THL student rep program. But even those programs where not focused on building a sustainable community and were mostly focused on training individuals or supporting certain campaigns!
We want to not only support individuals, but also build a sustainable community and infrastructure! This current trend, where student orgs come and go every 2-3 years, and each student org is doing a different thing, is not effective and doesn’t work, yet as you mentioned, there’s tremendous potential in universities. People whom if we invest on, can change the system!
Thanks again for the kind words!