An entrepreneur and mother she is passionate about the various ways that education takes place in everyday situations. Having founded Verve Dance Studio, Russell uses dance classes and community events as a platform to create a network of individuals who collectively care about and help to spread the value of education through art forms and self expression. In previous business endeavors and currently as a professional development coach, she builds new formulas for success, by defining profit driven success around values of integrity, human development and the hierarchy of human needs.