That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. - Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste ... It’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. - Rahm Emanuel.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to organize the Online Agricultural and Resource Economics Seminar (OARES).

The unspoken goal of OARES has been to break down the privilege barrier in two ways: (i) by featuring the work of junior (i.e., pre-tenure), women, or minority scholars for the most part, and (ii) by bringing frontier research to those who may not have had access to a regular seminar series prior to the pandemic.

Given that, we discuss the contribution of the OARES to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in a recent article in Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy.