Dr. Lane Graves Perry III currently serves as Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning at Western Carolina University, a Carnegie-Community Engaged campus where he advises the nationally recognized Student Democracy Coalition. He teaches in the Colleges of Education and Business. He has published and presented extensively in the fields of community engagement/ service-learning, global citizenship development, higher education’s response to disaster, and public health. He has served as the co-editor of the International Journal for Research on Service Learning & Community Engagement (2016-2018), a Campus Compact Research Fellow helping develop the Preliminary Competency Model for the Community Engagement Professional, and has been recognized as the 2015 North Carolina Campus Compact Civic Engagement Professional of the Year, the 2015 co-recipient of the Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement, and the 2017 Gulf-South Summit Community Engagement Practitioner of the Year. As a Rotarian, Lane lives by the belief that the only thing better than watching someone grow, is helping them grow. He lives in western NC with his partner, Dr. April Perry, his 7-year-old daughter and his 2-year-old daughter.