Brice Russ is the Assistant Director and Media Team Chair for Yuri's Night, the World Space Party. Brice oversees and manages the media presence of Yuri's Night on a global scale, including the Yuri's Night blog, press center, and newsletter. He also leads public and press relations for the Yuri's Night Global Team. Brice is a member of the Yuri's Night Board of Directors and has been a part of the Yuri's Night Global Team since 2006. Brice serves as the Social Networking Committee Chair for the National Space Society and is a freelance journalist, having written articles on space and science topics for publications including Ars Technica and Ad Astra. He has also worked on marketing and education projects for 4Frontiers Corporation and the office of Congressman Chaka Fattah. He is currently completing his graduate studies in linguistics at The Ohio State University, where he researches linguistic features of online communication; his work on using Twitter to map dialects of American English was featured in The New York Times and the Boston Globe. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the vice-president of UNC-SEDS.