Dr. Russell Lowery-Hart currently serves as President of Austin Community College. Previously, he was President for Amarillo College, which was recently named a Top Ten Finalist for the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. Russell’s leadership is focused on improving student success through systemic and cultural change centered on one word: love. Russell developed the systemic Culture of Caring targeting removal of poverty barriers that was featured in The Atlantic (June 2018) and in the documentary on AmazonPrime, The Antidote, from Oscar Nominated and Emmy Award winning directors Kahane Cooperman and John Hoffman.