To cultivate thriving veterinary teams that enable individuals to be their authentic selves, build trusting relationships, and belong within a diverse community empowered to increase the pathway of underrepresented minorities (URMs) into the veterinary profession. 

We envision workplace environments that authentically celebrate diversity in class, creed, gender orientation, extraordinary abilities and ethnicity to be the evolutionary points toward igniting a positive culture of health and wellbeing!

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Our values bridge the cultural competency gap

• Build teams and community through communication, mentorship, scholarship, and support.
• Lead the transformation of veterinary culture across academia and practice.
• Educate the profession on cultural differences and equity.
• Navigate teams through conflict, healing, and evolution.
• Diversify the profession and strengthen inclusiveness.

blendVET® began with a bold question: What if every veterinary professional truly felt like they belonged? 

• In 2020, Dr. Niccole Bruno delivered a virtual presentation to VOICE x VBMA students nationwide. Over 700 veterinary students joined the session—and what followed was eye-opening. Dozens reached out to share that the challenges Dr. Bruno described were still very much their reality. The message was clear: veterinary medicine hadn’t evolved enough. It was supposed to be better. That moment sparked the beginning of something bigger—blendVET.
• 2021: Launched the first DEIB lectures at a national industry conference.
• 2022: Launched the nation’s first and only veterinary-curated DEIB RACE-approved educational curriculum.
• In 2023, blendVET partnered with the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC) to launch its first Youth Pathway Program (for students and their parents) at VMX—the world’s largest veterinary conference. Since then, we’ve hosted more than a dozen pathway programs across the country, reaching over 600 students and opening doors to future careers in veterinary medicine.
• Today: blendVET partners with veterinary hospitals, academic institutions and industry leaders to drive meaningful cultural change.

Through our Youth Pathways, Education Pathways (including the nationally recognized Achiever Certification), and Partner Pathways, blendVET® empowers the profession from classrooms to clinics.

At our core, we believe people power the profession. When team members are seen, heard, and valued, we create healthier workplace cultures, better patient outcomes, and sustainable practice growth.

Because when everyone belongs, the entire profession thrives.