Important theoretical work on interracial interactions reveals anxiety to be a prominent barrier to positive interactions and interracial relations. Grounded in this theoretical perspective, we developed an intervention designed to promote positive interracial interactions and minimize anxiety at an undergraduate institution. Undergraduate participants completed an initial survey and were exposed to one of the two intervention messages or no-message control. Participants in the intervention groups were asked to intentionally meet “someone new” of a different race in the upcoming week. A week later, we followed up with all participants to ascertain who they met and how the encounters (if any) went. Relative to the control, those in the intervention conditions met more new people, felt less anxiety when meeting someone new of a different race, and this lower level of anxiety in their actual encounters during the week was correlated with reporting more interest in and likelihood of interacting with others from a different race in imagined scenarios. This work undergirds the importance of understanding the role of anxiety in promoting positive interracial interactions.