Dr. Lisa Gring-Pemble, an associate professor at George Mason University, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication (Rhetoric) from the University of Maryland.. She is the author of Grim Fairy Tales: The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy, co-author of Your Daughters Will Prophesy: Religion and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century Woman's Movement, and co-editor of Readings on Political Communication. Her work has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Political Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Women and Language, and Communication Quarterly, among others. Gring-Pemble is passionate about teaching and is the recipient of the 2005 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2017 OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award, 2019 George Mason University Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award, and 2024 John Toups Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Teaching. Gring-Pemble regularly collaborates with faculty and staff at the College of Public Health in a variety of ways, including serving as a lead academic mentor for the Learning Laboratory for Population and Social Health, and serving as a co-principal investigator on several grants focused on community-driven development and public health.