Kathleen Russell is the Founder and President of Kathleen Russell Consulting.
Kathleen brings more than eighteen years of experience in strategic communications, government relations, grassroots organizing and campaign consulting to the helm of KRC. Her clients include Marin General ...
Kathleen Russell is the Founder and President of Kathleen Russell Consulting.
Kathleen brings more than eighteen years of experience in strategic communications, government relations, grassroots organizing and campaign consulting to the helm of KRC. Her clients include Marin General Hospital, Community Action Marin, the Alaska Federation of Natives, and the Scott Law Firm, among others. In 2013, Kathleen and her firm celebrate eleven years of telling stories and moving mountains in Marin County for nonprofits and political candidates who are making the world a better place.
Before launching KRC, Kathleen was one of the highest-producing Senior Project Managers at Seattle’s Pyramid Communications, where she generated and managed many of the firm’s accounts with nonprofits working for racial, social, environmental and economic justice. She has worked with all levels of government and society – from organizing political events at The White House and United States Congress to building lasting grassroots organizations from the ground up. Kathleen recently led successful advocacy campaigns that have resulted in a California State Audit and new state law creating important new protections for children whose parents are navigating the family courts. She also served as an Advisor to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. Kathleen is a 2005 alumna of Emerge California and served on the Executive Board of the Democratic Central Committee of Marin.
While living in Missoula, Kathleen provided vital women’s health services at Planned Parenthood and founded a grassroots organization to combat hate crimes against Montana’s Jewish and LGBT communities. She started her career as a political consultant for the Montana Democratic Party by winning a number of legislative races in western Montana during the 1994 cycle. She then worked as an Aide to the Senate Minority Leader before moving to Washington State, where she lobbied the Legislature for two years on immigrant rights and other social justice and anti-poverty issues as the Legislative Director for the Washington Association of Churches.
Kathleen holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in San Rafael, where she practices yoga and hikes the glorious trails of Marin County when she is not traveling to Mexico, Alaska, Washington, D.C. or beyond.