This grant supports computer scientist Rediet Abebe at the University of California, Berkeley and economist Maximilian Kasy at the University of Oxford, who are organizing the Association for Computing Machinery’s inaugural conference focused on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization—EAAMO 2021. The virtual conference will convene experts from academia, government, and industry working on the computational tools and relevant economic or social science research required to address urgent societal problems. EAAMO 2021 seeks to foster community-bridging collaborations for addressing issues such as access to education and healthcare, interventions for alleviating poverty, as well as policies to promote fairness and privacy in labor markets.