Deb
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Activist/Organizer |
| Location | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | Debbie Russell has engaged in many coalition-building efforts on a local and regional level with a broad range of communities and on a variety of issue fronts. She has worked on many candidate campaigns and issue ballot measures. Debbie served on the Del Valle ISD Board of Trustees (representing District 2) from 2011 - 2019 and volunteers on behalf of the ACLU-TX and Austin Lawyers Guild: focusing on police accountability and open government and was a member of the City of Austin's Public Safety Task Force. She was named Austin's "Most Active Activist" in the Austin Chronicle, Best of 2005; received the ACLU-TX "Outstanding Activist" award in 2009; and in 2010, she received a Volunteer of the Year award from Texans for Accountable Government, a "Si Se Puede" award from PODER: People in Defense of the Earth and Her Resources and a Spike Gillespie "Kick Ass Award." |