Jeanne received her bachelor’s in anthropology from UC Berkeley and her master’s in education from UC Davis. She later received a joint master’s in journalism and Latin American studies from New York University. She spent several years as a teacher in New York City, Tokyo and Guatemala City. She began her journalism career along the U.S. Mexico border and spent 10 years at the San Antonio Express-News as a reporter and editor. She served as communications director and education advisor to Mayor Phil Hardberger, and Education Policy Advisor to Mayor Julián Castro. She and her husband live in Southtown where her two children are enrolled in Bonham Academy’s dual language program. Fun Fact: Jeannerussell (all one word makes it more awesome) drinks her morning coffee out of a chalice.
By Jeanne Russell, SA2020 Chief of Strategy As someone wholly captivated by the power of cities to change lives, I also consume books that make that case – and especially enjoy the ones with data to back it up.
By Jeanne Russell, SA2020 Chief Strategist “To the Chief of Strategery: I appreciate your fancy titles over there at 2020, and I want to be helpful. So please give me a clue as to what “Collective-Impact-Director” means.” So began
By Jeanne Russell, SA2020 Chief Strategist It’s been a whiplash-inducing year for me personally, leaving Mayor Castro’s office after the passage of Pre-K 4 SA to join SA2020, a fledgling nonprofit with about 6 years to help our city
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020