Meet Ruth
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Meet Ruth
Ruth is a woman of faith and integrity calling Texas home for over 16 years.
Ruth is a bold warrior for a government that serves the people, not the 1%.
Ruth is 3rd of 6 kids to Linda, a white country girl and Andres, a black Puerto Rican. Both from rural farming families.
Ruth and her disabled siblings understand challenges having gone through foster homes & homeless shelters. Ruth was a 10th grade dropout but became the first in her family to earn a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Mountain View College & Dallas Baptist University via a daily 14 mile bicycle ride, a Master’s Degree in International Management from FIU and Ruth is currently earning her law degree.
Now an empty nester, Ruth raised 5 beautiful racially diverse children as a single parent: 2 from a relationship with a police officer and 3 she took as her own when their mothers died very young due to lack of adequate medical care.
Ruth is a strategic process improvement and problem solving expert with over 20 years in Human Capital Strategy & Legal Compliance Consulting. Ruth climbed the corporate ladder as a Human Resources Executive. In 2007, she founded a small consulting business. Ruth was also a business professor for 7 years and is Executive Director for a non-profit organization for at-risk youth.
Ruth lives by a code of ethics to hold the powerful accountable regardless of party, wealth, race, or popularity.
Truth spoken in love for people and justice.
Ruth has brought results for Texans including:
- Public Education:
- Ruth has been an aggressive public education activist in Austin against vouchers for years.
- Ruth sought recovery of $88M in misappropriated Dallas ISD bond funds submitting a complaint to enforcement agencies. Subsequently DISD Superintendent Hinojosa “retired” & three trustees were not allowed to seek re-election.
- Ruth’s report also disrupted non-profits illegally engaging in political advertising to gain school board seats for pro-charter/ pro-voucher candidates.
- Public Safety: Ruth proposed legislation to stop street racing after 8 year old Olivia was killed. She gained sponsorship and bi-partisan support resulting in two laws passed in 2021 protecting lives across Texas.
- Housing: Ruth confronted mismanagement of HUD bond dollars and lack of housing discrimination legal actions by the City of Dallas which benefitted campaign contributors resulting in dozens of additional affordable housing units in downtown and ongoing legal action for records to enforce accountability.
- (See: Travis County: D-1-GN-19-003589)
- Government Accountability & Worker Rights:
- From 2014-2016, hundreds of DFW Airport workers were robbed of wages and benefits, until Ruth blew the whistle and it STOPPED.
- Ruth has lost $1.8M in personal income due to retaliation for fighting this government corruption.
- The DFW Airport contractor, Heaven Marie Diaz, owner of Pursuit of Excellence Inc., was convicted in 2025 for just one of many illegal acts stemming from airport contracts. (See: US Federal Court, North TX, 3:23-CR-00144-N).
- Ruth continues to pursue accountability for dozens of local and state government officials of both political parties including: Governor Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton, DFW Airport Board and Executives, City of Dallas and Fort Worth Councils, Judge Bonnie Goldstein, Dallas 5th Court of Appeals and Texas Supreme Court Judges. (See: US Federal Court, North TX Cases in appeals process: 3:24-CV-1842-X and 3:24-CV-1843-B).
Ruth has also served:
- Texas Organizing Project (Beto for Senate & coordinated campaign)
- Dallas Board of Adjustment
- Dallas Police Dept Chief Community Board
- Neighborhood Coalition Dallas
- Dallas County Democratic Party (executed 2020 Election)
- Outreach at The Henry Wade Juvenile Justice Center
- NTX Regional Housing Assessment Project (desegregation plan)
- NAACP state & national, Resolutions Chair
- PTSA Executive Board, Booker T. Washington HSPVA
- S.M. Wright Foundation, Christmas in the Park at Fair Park
- Coalition Partner gaining DPD Community Police Oversight Board
- Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship’s Project Turn-Around Adopt-A-School Advisory Board
