Mary Elizabeth Tyler Boucebci is Grants Officer in the Office of Grants Development and Administration at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College. In this role, she is responsible for faculty and community partnership development related to the seeking of external funds, especially in the areas of engaged teaching, scholarship, and learning. Mary Elizabeth has over seventeen years of experience facilitating meaningful and mutually-beneficial relationships among institutions of higher learning and the communities in which they are situated. She holds a B.A. with Honors in French and Religion from Berry College, where she was a Bonner Scholar, and an M.A. with Honors in American Studies from Kennesaw State University. Mary Elizabeth is currently pursuing her PhD in Communication. Her research focuses on the democratization of campus-community partnerships, mass media representations of religious identity, and the implications of religious and media illiteracy for our democracy.