Tara Russell is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Photon Marine. She was previously the global impact lead of Carnival Corporation & plc, the world’s largest travel and leisure company. Prior to Carnival Corporation, Russell was Founder and CEO of Create Common Good, a non-profit social enterprise that provides training and employment to refugees and a wide variety of other populations with barriers to employment. Russell created CCG in 2008 in order to use food to change lives by empowering for self-sufficiency through a creative food-production social enterprise production model. In 2007, Russell was part of the founding team of Jitasa, a for-profit social venture that provides affordable financial services to the non-profit industry. Prior to this, Russell spent four years in Thailand, where she offered pro bono small business development training to nongovernmental organizations. Russell also co-founded NightLight, an international organization that addresses the complex issues surrounding sex trafficking and exploitation. Russell started her career with a number of Fortune 500 companies. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with Highest Honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is married with two children.
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