In this week\u2019s episode, host Margaret Walls sits in on the annual conference of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists to talk with Jill Caviglia-Harris, a professor at Salisbury University, about her work teaching and mentoring early-career scholars in the field of environmental economics. Caviglia-Harris discusses her approach to teaching and mentorship, efforts to facilitate diverse perspectives in environmental economics by building diverse cohorts of scholars, and the importance of collective leadership methods in these types of inclusive programs.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cThe six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader\u201d by Jill Caviglia-Harris, Karen E. Hodges, Brian Helmuth, Elena M. Bennett, Kathleen Galvin, Margaret Krebs, Karen Lips, Meg Lowman, Lisa A. Schulte, and Edward A. G. Schuur; https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss3/art9/\n\n\u201cLooking at Environmental and Natural Resource Economics through the Lens of Racial Equity\u201d by Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Jimena Gonz\xe1lez Ram\xedrez, Sumeet Gulati, Sarah Jacobson, Dale Manning, Samuel Stolper, and Matt Fleck; https://www.resources.org/common-resources/looking-at-environmental-and-natural-resource-economics-through-the-lens-of-racial-equity/\n\n\u201cSystemic Racism in Environmental Economics\u201d podcast episode from Resources Radio; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/systemic-racism-in-environmental-economics-with-jimena-gonzalez-ramirez-and-sarah-jacobson/\n\n\u201cEnvironmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism\u201d by Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Nathan W. Chan, Jimena Gonz\xe1lez Ram\xedrez, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew G. Interis, Sarah Jacobson, Dale T. Manning, and Samuel Stolper; https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/environmental-and-natural-resource-economics-and-systemic-racism/\n\n\u201cEnvironmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism\u201d by Amy W. Ando, Titus O. Awokuse, Nathan W. Chan, Jimena Gonz\xe1lez-Ram\xedrez, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew G. Interis, Sarah Jacobson, Dale T. Manning, and Samuel Stolper; https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727693\n\n\u201cThinking Like an Economist\u201d by Elizabeth Popp Berman; https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167381/thinking-like-an-economist