Martha G. Russell. Spanning issues in special education to workforce revitalization to higher education, Russell’s advocacy for science to create effective learning environments has focused on partnership programs. She has led and advised local, regional, national and international joint ventures to optimize the influence of innovative technologies on talent pipelines, industry-government-university collaborations and service ecosystems.

Martha is Executive Director of mediaX at Stanford University and Senior Research Scholar with the Human Sciences Technology Advanced Research Institute at Stanford. Dr. Russell leads business alliances and interdisciplinary research for mediaX at Stanford University. Her north star principles focus on people and information technologies as intersecting vectors and maintain an unswerving dedication to the power of shared vision, Russell has developed planning/evaluation systems and has led operations for local, regional, national and international joint ventures that seek to optimize the influence of innovative technologies on talent pipelines, industry-government-university collaborations and service ecosystems.