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Since its initial founding, PRIEC has expanded to include researchers outside of California and has coordinated more than 50 meetings at 25 different institutions across the country featuring research by more than 200 scholars. PRIEC has now convened at University-to name a few. In response to growing demand, PRIEC meetings also have increased from three to six or seven per year.The overwhelming interest in PRIEC outside of California was confirmed recently at Michigan State University (MSU), where Nazita Lajevardi and Eric Gonzalez Juenke coordinated and managed a one-day meeting consisting of five panels, 26 presentations, and a poster session with 16 posters. Panel presentations were brief and were conducted "Five-Minute-Fiesta" style, 1 including 30 minutes of Q&A for each panel. The afternoon poster session was a roaming happy hour; each poster was assigned a senior scholar as a discussant who commented on the poster in depth. The evening concluded with a dinner at Lajevardi's home. Together, 75 participants from the REP community at MSU, Michigan broadly, the Midwest, and California attended the one-day meeting (figure 1 is a photograph of participants). To promote their attendance, outof-state participants were offered between $150 and $300 of support to offset travel costs. Similar to the support occasionally offered by hosts at other institutions, this funding came from PRIEC, the organizers' personal research accounts, Chicano Latino Studies at MSU, and the political science department at MSU. The MSU meeting is illustrative of PRIEC's commitment to inclusivity, mentoring, and addressing pipeline challenges.The benefits of attending and hosting a PRIEC meeting are numerous for REP scholars and for their universities more broadly. In addition to creating a welcoming space for junior scholars to access professionalization and mentorship opportunities, PRIEC meetings provide numerous public goods to a university as a whole. For instance, hosting a PRIEC meeting increases the national recognition of a university; supports a university's diversity and inclusion goals; and provides professional development for assistant professors, graduate students, and even undergraduate students. PRIEC meetings also support faculty of color (who often are REP scholars) and foster a community of race scholars in their own as well as nearby universities. n

The year 2018 has been dubbed the Year of the Woman because of the increased number of women who ran for office. What helps explain the dramatic increase in the number of women running for office? This paper examines how the political environment shapes white women’s emotional reactions to politics and in turn their political ambition. We focus on major aspects of the 2016 election: Trump’s treatment of women, Clinton’s historic run for office, the Women’s March, and the #MeToo movement. We argue that each of these factors leads to distinct emotional reactions, and that some of these reactions can increase political ambition. We explore support for these arguments with an experiment conducted with a sample of highly educated white women, an experiment fielded on the 2019 CCES, and with in-depth interviews conducted with first-time women candidates in 2018. We find that Trump’s treatment of women and Clinton’s historic run for office inspired political ambition, but through different emotional pathways. Trump’s treatment of women increased anger and in turn political ambition, while Clinton’s historic run increased ambition through enthusiasm. We find more muted effects for the Women’s Marches and the #MeToo movement.

A common refrain among graduate students and academics is that graduate school can feel isolating. For those from historically marginalized populations, the colleagues who share the closest scholarly knowledge are unlikely to also share similar experiences of academic life. This chapter provides reflections from the authors on using social media to find, create, and maintain a community and examples of how we have leveraged our community to support personal and professional growth as graduate students. In addition, we offer institutional and individual level guidance regarding how to build communities in the political science discipline and why this intentional practice of community building provides short-term and long-term benefits to graduate students, departments, and the discipline as a whole. This manuscript is part of Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, a forthcoming volume for those interested in pursuing graduate education in political science (Fall 2022 publication)