Gwen Russell Green is a freelance writer, and an educational consultant. She is the CEO of her company, Green Ideas, Inc. She began her career in DeKalb County as a Media Specialist at Redan Elementary School, and served at Kingsley Elementary School, which is now Kingsley Charter School. She began her work with the Georgia PTA as a Cultural Arts chairperson at Fairington Elementary School, and later became PTA President. While serving in that capacity, she was honored there with a lifetime PTA membership. She was also honored with a PTSA lifetime membership by the Stephenson Middle School PTSA in 2005. She was selected to be the keynote speaker for the DeKalb County, Georgia School System’s 2005 New Teacher Orientation, where she shared her inspirational messages and poetry with over 800 beginning teachers for that school district. She also earned several grant awards to create literary events throughout DeKalb County and the City of Atlanta. Her signature event, the Creative Collaboration in the Southeast, held in various arts centers in DeKalb County Georgia, allows her to commission and pay writers, visual artists, musicians, and dancers. Ms. Green is also a freelance writer who has self -published two volumes of poetry, From the Edges, and Another beside Adam. She has published in the Atlanta-Journal and Constitution, The Catalyst Magazine, The New South Review, On Common Ground newspaper, Good News Magazine, The Atlanta Track Club Magazine and in the Reach of Song poetry anthology published by the Georgia Poetry Society. One of her poems, entitled, "September" was selected as a semi-finalist in competition by poetry.com, and was published in an anthology of their writers. Another poem, "In Birmingham" a tribute to the four children killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL in 1965, was the initial poem in the anthology, Best poems and Poets of 2003 published by the International Society of Poetry.
She wrote a weekly fitness column for The Champion Newspaper for many years. She has been featured in numerous arts events such as Kingfest, the National Black Arts Festival, and the Indiana Black Expo. She served for many years as an artist in the Fulton County Arts Council's School Arts program and the Atlanta City School System's Bounty summer program for gifted students. She has taught creative writing for Georgia State University in the Continuing Education Program. She has served as a writing coach in the DeKalb County, Georgia School District. In 2005 she was awarded funding by the Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) for innovative teaching practices. She received grant funding in 2015 for a special project, “Read it-Own it,” to provide reading materials for underprivileged students to help to provide them with an enhanced print rich home and classroom environment.
She served as a board member with the Georgia Center for the Book for more than a decade, and has served on the boards of the Georgia State Poetry Society and the YWCA of Greater Atlanta. She is also a past president and a charter member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Tau PI Omega Chapter which serves the Stone Mountain and Lithonia communities. Ms. Green has been a certified fitness instructor and taught low-impact aerobics at the Lucious Sanders Recreation Center in DeKalb County, Georgia for over twenty years. She has completed the Peachtree Road race 26 times.
Ms. Russell Green is the proud mother of three productive adults, Quinn, Erin, and Tynan Green, and three grandchildren, Jackson Mathurin, and Gabrielle and Danielle Green.
She wrote a weekly fitness column for The Champion Newspaper for many years. She has been featured in numerous arts events such as Kingfest, the National Black Arts Festival, and the Indiana Black Expo. She served for many years as an artist in the Fulton County Arts Council's School Arts program and the Atlanta City School System's Bounty summer program for gifted students. She has taught creative writing for Georgia State University in the Continuing Education Program. She has served as a writing coach in the DeKalb County, Georgia School District. In 2005 she was awarded funding by the Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) for innovative teaching practices. She received grant funding in 2015 for a special project, “Read it-Own it,” to provide reading materials for underprivileged students to help to provide them with an enhanced print rich home and classroom environment.
She served as a board member with the Georgia Center for the Book for more than a decade, and has served on the boards of the Georgia State Poetry Society and the YWCA of Greater Atlanta. She is also a past president and a charter member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Tau PI Omega Chapter which serves the Stone Mountain and Lithonia communities. Ms. Green has been a certified fitness instructor and taught low-impact aerobics at the Lucious Sanders Recreation Center in DeKalb County, Georgia for over twenty years. She has completed the Peachtree Road race 26 times.
Ms. Russell Green is the proud mother of three productive adults, Quinn, Erin, and Tynan Green, and three grandchildren, Jackson Mathurin, and Gabrielle and Danielle Green.