Our Mission

Building Bridges fosters antiracism by educating people on how to intentionally engage in dialogues about racism.

Our Vision

Building Bridges deliberately dismantles and disrupts racism, one conversation at a time.

Our Values

In fulfilling its mission, Building Bridges grounds this work in the following values: 

  • Advocacy: modeling equity and centering BIPOC voices and resiliency

  • Support: feeling supported and offering support to one another as we collectively grow and face the insidious nature of racism

  • Openness: being open and welcoming while also inviting discomfort

  • Accountability: being a bridge to empower personal action and follow through

Building Bridges Nine Week Sessions

Building Bridges provides two 9-week sessions designed to foster crucial conversations around racism and antiracism. Our hope is to create an optimal space in which community members can expand awareness and analysis of how racism impacts us on individual, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic levels.

Please click HERE for more information and to add your name to our interest list to receive reminders and notification when registration for the next session begins.

Special Event | The Blind Pig presents: Culture

Deep thanks to The Blind Pig Supper Club for their generous support of Building Bridges of Asheville!

The May 7 Asheville dinner event will proudly support Building Bridges. Seven remarkably talented and select chefs from across the Southeastern United States led by James Beard Nominated chef Cleophus Hethington collaborate together to create an incredible menu influenced by the African diaspora- the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas.

Click HERE for more information and to purchase tickets.

Resources

Looking for some further reading? What about suggestions for actions you can take?

Visit our Resources page!