The Aspen - Bermuda Partnership on Racial Equity (ABPRE) is an outgrowth of the work started at the Aspen Institute’s Racial Equity and Society Seminars that took place in Aspen, Colorado and Wye, Maryland in 2009 - 2011. During these Seminars, participants were given the opportunity to begin to identify the causes of racial inequities in Bermuda and to develop strategies for promoting greater racial equity in their country.

As a continuation of the work started at the Seminars, alumni decided to become engaged in the Aspen – Bermuda Partnership on Racial Equity (ABPRE). This partnership tasks the group with developing work plans and implementation strategies that will lead to a more racially equitable Bermuda in the following areas: policy, community building, communications, and sustainability. As a vision, the ABPRE will demonstrate that deliberate work in these key areas will collectively lead to change at the personal and structural level which will create a stronger and more unified Bermuda.

Vision Statement

In all, ABPRE seeks to create and support policies and practices that promote a racially equitable, inclusive, and integrated Bermuda.

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Racial equity is the reality where black, white, Portuguese and all other groups have equivalent access to influence and are equally likely to have similar positive or negative experiences in employment, education, criminal justice, and all the other arenas that determine life outcomes in Bermuda.

Our Current Work