At Pet Harmony, our diverse leadership including individuals who are biracial, queer, neurodivergent, and living with chronic illnesses recognizes both our challenges and privileges. We are dedicated to understanding complex social issues and integrating this knowledge into our business practices to foster equity and inclusion. Our focus is on the impact of our actions, ensuring they align with our commitment to social responsibility.
Pet Harmony welcomes, includes, and values all voices within the context of the paradox of tolerance. This means that we welcome voices of all different races, ethnicities, nationalities, faiths, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, ages, and socioeconomic statuses and we do not tolerate racism, racial prejudice, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, or classism.
We actively implement the following practices to promote equity and inclusion in our business and personal lives. Recognizing this as an ongoing journey, we welcome feedback to help us continually improve.
financial accessibility
We offer scholarships, including DEI and GDP (for international colleagues facing economic disparities) to make our professional services more accessible, subject to availability.
PHYSICAL AND NEURODIVERSE ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to provide our services and resources in formats that accommodate diverse physical and neurological abilities. When direct support is not feasible, we offer alternative resources to ensure accessibility.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We acknowledge that Pet Harmony operates on the unceded territory of Duwamish, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa, and we honor their past and present elders. We recognize the histories of violence and displacement they have endured and remain committed to social justice and dismantling these harmful legacies.
INTENTIONAL ENGAGEMENT
We leverage our privilege to support and learn from marginalized voices by contributing time and resources to organizations such as:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Reclaim Justice Movement
- Choose 180
- Native Hope
- Real Rent
- United We Dream
- NARAL Pro-Choice America
- Innocence Project
- The Paper Ceiling
You can learn more about each organization and get involved by clicking on the links above.
GROWTH MINDSET AND INTELLECTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY
We embrace a growth mindset, as defined by Dr. Carol Dweck, staying current with research and evidence-based practices. We hold ourselves intellectually accountable by welcoming feedback, practicing critical thinking, and evaluating information thoughtfully, a process rooted in epistemology. Our intention here is to mitigate the harm of misinformation so that our practices can be as ethical, effective, and efficient as possible.
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.”
– Daniel Boorstin
Special thanks and acknowledgement to Hannah Sigel of Baltimore K9 Tutors for letting us use her Values page as a model, including the direct use of some of her phrasing.
