Anita Russell joined Working Solutions in early 2020. As a Community Development Manager, Anita is responsible for developing new partner relationships and supporting outreach efforts. Anita brings a strong ability to lead and communicate as a vibrant visionary who has produced a diversity of informationally robust symposiums on topics ranging from financial literacy and women's empowerment to youth engagement.  

In her past corporate career track, she served in capacities as a job developer who procured new employer relationships with local and corporate business owners, and also as a career coach responsible for onboarding and training hundreds of marginalized Bay Area youth from underserved communities. She has also worked in diverse capacities with helping to co-manage sprawling, high-end commercial office properties in the South Bay, San Francisco, and East Bay.

Anita's acumen for advocacy, communication, and partnership building has been solid for more than 25 years.