Who We Are
Activist Care Circle was founded in 2023 by two friends and fellow activists, Heather Thornton and Amy Branch-Lambert. We are here to celebrate you and the work you do, as well as comfort you on the difficult days this work and this world bring. Activist Care Circle is a space for activists, by activists.
Amy Branch-Lambert
Amy is a life-coach, artist, retired chaplain, and co-founder of Activist Care Circle. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Masters in Divinity. Amy teaches gratitude classes, mindfulness classes and offers sobriety assistance and grief counseling. She has 20 years experience working in all areas of healthcare chaplaincy... 10+ years experience assisting chemically dependent patients. She has led groups for 25 years. She is a Certified Daring Way Facilitator based on the research of Dr. Brené Brown. She strives to be a compassionate companion to those who seek wholeness and healing- mind, body and spirit.
Amy has been a practicing artist for 8 years working in acrylics, mixed media and ceramics.
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Heather Thornton
Heather Thornton is the co-founder of Activist Care Circle and Executive Director of Empowering Democracy, an organization that helps people find their role in activism. She is a community organizer, trainer, mindfulness student/teacher, and movement chaplain. Heather has played a role in helping thousands of people move from concerned citizen to effective activist. Combining her decades of business and non-profit experience with an understanding of organizing, her goal is now to help create a culture of sustainable activism and self-care for the activists in the progressive movement so close to her heart.
Heather still considers herself a proud Pittsburgher, even after 20 years of living in Texas with her family and their ragdoll cat Peep.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
Adrienne Rich
