Human Resources Consultant & Former Business Professor.
Ruth is a strategic change agent and legal compliance expert that turns chaos into order while championing worker rights for over 25 years.
Raised in Chicago and Miami, Ruth has called Dallas home for 15 years. Ruth went from foster homes & homeless shelters, a 10th grade dropout and single mother to become an HR Leader, entrepreneur, business professor, lecturer, author and Executive Director for a non-profit organization for at-risk youth.
Ruth is a strategic change agent and legal compliance expert leading organizations from start-up to bankruptcy reorganizations aligning programs & policies for impactful, profitable results. Ruth is a hands-on problem solver uniting stakeholders for mutual goals.
Ruth earned a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Dallas College and Dallas Baptist University via a daily 14 mile bicycle ride, a Master’s Degree in International Management from Florida International University, as well as SPHR and mediation certifications. Ruth left an Executive Regional role with a national organization to start an HR Consulting firm in 2007.
Ruth’s faith is her operating system. In 1998, Ruth responded to a unique alter call at OCBF, to be part of the solution. Ruth is a Christian that believes in the true spirit of Jesus Christ, to demonstrate love for God by loving others. It is our mutual responsibility to fight for justice and speak for the poor, oppressed & most vulnerable. Ruth is heartbroken at the weaponized, deformed religion being used to justify discrimination and control, the very purpose why the United States was formed; religious freedom.
Ruth is 3rd of 6 kids to parents Linda Sue, a white country girl from rural Kentucky and Andres a black Puerto Rican, both from rural farming families.
Ruth embraces all of who she is and often describes herself as being like café con leche (coffee with creamer). Ruth’s diverse background exposed her to racial and socio-economic dynamics lighting a passion to foster honest, results oriented conversations to address social justice issues and improve inter-racial relationships.
Ruth has 5 beautiful racially diverse children, 2 daughters with a police officer and 3 she took as her own when their mother’s died due to lack of adequate medical care. In 2023, Ruth became an empty nester and a grandmother. Ruth’s old man of 18 years is a jealous beast that still lives up to his name, Chase Trouble.
In 2016, Ruth discovered government corruption that required her to shake-off conditioning to accept things as they are to fight for justice and rights promised by our constitution.
These experiences as well as the murder of George Floyd and the January 6th insurrection made Ruth realize the need to TRY to make things better for all of our children and grandchildren, it’s the motivation behind her commitment to serve District 5.
Ruth volunteer service to DFW includes:
