Alicia Silverstone Steps Into the Spotlight for the World’s Largest Day of Shelter Pet Awareness / Animals & Wildlife Welfare,
Alicia Silverstone Steps Into the Spotlight for the World’s Largest Day of Shelter Pet Awareness Nearly three decades after Cher Horowitz first taught audiences to say “as if,” Alicia Silverstone is lending her voice to a very different kind of cause, headlining the fourteenth annual Remember Me Thursday campaign and asking the world to pause, on one specific Thursday each September, and think about the animals still waiting to be chosen. By the Sustainable Action Now Community Desk · August 26, 2026 · 7 minute read Alicia Silverstone has been named the Featured Luminary of the 2026 Remember Me Thursday global campaign. Every year, on the fourth Thursday of September, an unusual thing happens across more than 180 countries. Shelters light candles, families post photos of pets who never found homes, and millions of people pause for a moment to think about the animals still waiting behind kennel doors. This September, that global effort has a new face leading it.
Alicia Silverstone, the actor, author, and longtime animal welfare advocate best known for her breakout role in Clueless, has been named the Featured Luminary of the fourteenth annual Remember Me Thursday campaign, joining a growing list of public figures who have used their visibility to keep shelter animals in the national conversation. The campaign itself, observed this year on September 24, was built around a simple but stubborn problem. Every year, a staggering number of pets die in shelters without ever finding a family, often because the public simply is not thinking about them at that particular moment. Remember Me Thursday exists to interrupt that silence for one day, encouraging supporters to light a candle, share a rescue story, or flood social media with a single unified message urging people to remember orphan pets and consider adoption.
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