This grant supports efforts by the University of California, Berkeley’s Initiative on Equity in Energy and Enviromental Economics, to attract a more diverse group of students to the study of energy economics, and to provide education and training that will prepare these students for success in graduate study and careers in professional energy economics.  Funded activities include a mentoring program for underrepresented graduate students of color, a competitive grant program that will fund ten graduate research projects on issues related to energy equity, and an initiative to hire an underrepresented postdoctoral scholar of color working in energy economics.  Additional grant fund will support a series of networking and convening events to build community across all levels of this initiative to connect supported students to one another and with energy economics faculty at Energy Institute at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business—one of the leading energy economics centers in the country—and Berkeley’s Opportunity Lab.