Caroline Russell is a Green Party politician. She moved to London in 1986, and received an engineering degree from City University and a masters from Goldsmiths College. Resident in Highbury in the London Borough of Islington since 1992, in 2014 she was elected to Islington Council as a councillor for Highbury EEast Ward. She is the only councillor on the forty-eight member council not to belong to the Labour Party, thus forming a single member opposition group. At the 2015 general election she contested Islington North. She came third, pushing the Liberal Democrats into fourth place.