Dr. Lisa Gring-Pemble serves as an Executive Director of the Business for a Better World Center and Director of Global Impact & Engagement. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric (U of Maryland). Since joining Mason in 2000, she has pursued teaching and research around global impact and engagement, argumentation and persuasion, and political communication and legislation. She is author of Grim Fairy Tales: The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy and a co-editor of Readings on Political Communication. Gring-Pemble is passionate about teaching and has received the Teaching Excellence, OSCAR Mentoring Excellence, and Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Awards. She is committed to sustainability initiatives including: Co-Founder and Director of Strategy of the Honey Bee Initiative, and member of the Mason Sustainability Council, Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and Principles for Responsible Management Education. Gring-Pemble serves on the advisory board of UndocuMason and is an ardent supporter of DACA, undocumented, and TPS students.