Casey Russell

Casey Russell is an education and access media professional at High Five Access Media in Avon, Colorado, a community media center serving the Vail Valley region, where the work connects youth media education, community production, and local access programming in a mountain resort community with a more diverse permanent population than its national profile suggests. Casey serves on the ACM Western Region board, extending that local work into regional field leadership.

High Five's work in a resort economy reflects a particular community media challenge: building and sustaining a local media culture in a place where the dominant public narrative is shaped by tourism and real estate rather than the working community that actually lives there year-round.

Casey's work, combining education, production, and board service, reflects the practitioner commitment that keeps smaller and less visible community media operations connected to the field's shared resources and conversations.