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What are we hoping to accomplish with our blog? 

We Aspire to share meaningful stories of social change to provide connection, inspiration, and fruitful wisdom. 

The Walden University Center for Social Change has three primary goals. We empower changemakers, build community, and elevate social change outcomes across the university. We Aspire to remain aligned with our blog by bridging connections across boundaries through authentic, emotive, and inspiring stories about our community’s work in social change.   Stories provoke the empathy and connections which cultivate our sense of generosity and compassion.  

Paul Zak is a neuro-economist who has studied how oxytocin in the brain can facilitate our behaviors such as trust and empathy, specifically when listening to stories shared by other individuals. Zak’s research (2015) suggests that stories have the power to create empathy, generosity, and compassion among strangers and increase our willingness to take action to connect with one another. 

We Aspire to be a vessel for learning by humanizing the real everyday challenges and triumphs changemakers across the world experience as they pull up their sleeves and try to make a positive mark in a way most meaningful to them.   

We Aspire to learn from one another by discovering lessons that can be applied broadly, provoke growth, and deconstruct the complexity of social change with digestible stories and relevant resources.