Increasing diversity in skilled trade positions is a top priority throughout the industry as businesses work to have their workforce better reflect the customers and communities they serve. This session will explore work being done in this area. Tarn Goelling, Director of Civic and Community Engagement of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers will kick the session off by providing an overview of the IBEW Strong program that offers a vision for a union that welcomes, supports, and encourages diversity and respects and includes all workers, regardless of identity differences. We will then hear from some of the utilities that are partnering with IBEW to implement its program tenants and learn what steps are being taken to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive trade workforce.