Russell is a founding director of RCKa, a London-based architectural practice that specialises in innovative residential, community and commercial projects. RCKa was winner of the inaugural RIBA London Emerging Practice of the Year in 2015 and has won two Housing Design Awards, once in 2011 and again in 2018.

Russell is also a founding director of Project Compass CIC, a not-for-profit research organisation that campaigns for better procurement of public buildings, a trustee of the Architecture Foundation, a member of the LLDC Quality Review Panel, Croydon’s Place Review Panel and a Mayor’s Design Advocate.