Meet Your Student Alliance Team

Thomas Russell is the Cyber Education Program Manager for the National Cybersecurity Center. He is retired from the army, where he worked in the signal corps. His background also includes a Master’s degree in education for Applied Technology from the College of Saint Rose, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management, and an Associate degree in Network Security from Colorado Technical University.

As a teacher at Falcon High School, Thomas taught many classes such as Cybersecurity, Computer Applications, Networking, Technology Literacy, Health and Information Technology, Information Security, and Computer Forensics.

Thomas is a certified teacher for Career and Technical Education, Instructional Technology, and STEM, and has won the Boettcher Foundation Teacher Recognition Award, the Falcon Educational Foundation’s Outstanding Teacher Award, the District 49 Teacher of the Year Award, and has been nominated for Colorado Teacher of the Year.

As the Cyber Education Program Manager for the Student Alliance, his responsibilities include running cybersecurity summer camps, providing education and certification training for K-12 and adults, organizing cyber events such as capture the flag competitions, training teachers to teach cybersecurity, and forging relationships between businesses and educational institutions. In 2020, Thomas was awarded the Cyber Education Administrator of the Year by the EdCenter, and was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate for Cyber Education by the Denver Institute for Urban Studies. His most recent book is Binary Society, a book of essays on the effects of technology on society.