Asher Craig

Asher is a councillor in Bristol and the city’s Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Children's Services, Education and Equalities. Previously, her cabinet responsibilities were for Public Health and Neighbourhoods. She has led award-winning work on the issues of structural and systemic racial disparities and inequalities in the city as part of Bristol One City.

She is a national thought leader on public health and crime prevention, and serves as a member of the Safer and Stronger Communities Board of the Local Government Association.

Alongside her trustee role at Terrence Higgins Trust, she is a trustee of ASDAN – an education charity – and The Friends of Fairfield House. She has previously been a school governor, trustee of the Quarter Community Foundation and Chairperson of the Black Development Agency.

Asher hosted the HIV Commission when it went to Bristol, has spoken at Terrence Higgins Trust events to mark National HIV Testing Week and helped found – and continues to support – Bristol Fast Tract Cities.