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The Equity in Math Education Research Grants (EMERG) Program supports individual research projects focused on reconceptualizing the foundations of equitable and ambitious mathematical experiences for K-12 learners, specifically for populations who have historically not had access to such opportunities. For purposes of the EMERG Program, these include learners from traditionally underserved populations (African-American, Latine, Indigenous communities) and from communities experiencing persistent inter-generational poverty. The program supports ten early career research grants and provides EMERG Scholars with a network of mid-career and senior scholars and practitioners to challenge and cultivate their proposed ideas. Together, the EMERG Scholars and their advisors will form a powerful research community and participate in the design of a conceptual framework to improve current knowledge of how learners from these communities achieve mathematical proficiency. The program aims to foster professional development of early career scholars, cultivate a community of emergent, mid-career, and senior scholars who will usher in new approaches to mathematics education research, and develop a conceptual framework that guides future research leading to forms of mathematics education worthy of all students, especially those under-served by existing structures.