Ben Schmisseur serves as Government Relations Manager at the Beacon Center of Tennessee and Beacon Impact. In May of 2026, he graduated Magna Cum Laude from Belmont University with a B.S. in Political Science. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha. While a student, Ben interned for Tennessee’s Speaker of the House of Representatives, Cameron Sexton. He then served as a Government Relations Associate with Tennesseans for Student Success. Upon graduating, Ben ran grassroots campaigns for state representative candidates.
Ben was born in Austin, Texas, and moved to Tennessee at a young age, where he has lived since. He played two years of college baseball at LaGrange College in Georgia, where he also served as a writing tutor. He is an avid baseball fan and also enjoys reading, fishing, and logging movies on Letterboxd.