[5] During her presidency, Marie T. Mora founded the ASHE awards, including the biennial Academic Achievement Award (inaugurated in 2008) to recognize the impact of members on research/scholarship, and the biennial Outstanding Service Awards (inaugurated in 2009) to recognize the impact of the non-board members on ASHE by individuals as well as institutions and organizations.
The ASHE Academic Achievement Awards are presented in even-numbered years at the annual business meeting (held at the ASSA annual meetings); the Outstanding Service Awards are presented in odd-numbered years.
Mora also founded the ASHE Dissertation Fellowships (inaugurated in 2008) for Ph.D. students.
[6] Starting in 2009, ASHE's Hispanic Economic Outlook Committee (which was co-founded by Marie T. Mora, Mark Hugo Lopez, and Alberto Davila in 2008) began disseminating the Hispanic Economic Outlook reports.
ASHE was founded in January 2002 during the 2002 AEA/ASSA annual meeting in Atlanta, GA, over a dinner meeting of Hispanic and Latino/a economists organized by Joseph Guzman and Sue Stockly, sponsored by the RAND Corporation.