Ruth received her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the College of William & Mary in 2014. She moved to Denver to complete an Americorps year of service and went on to work in an Immunology Health and Research Center. She completed her MPH in Epidemiology from Emory University in May 2018 and has been working with PRISM since 2016, starting as a Graduate Research Assistant before joining full-time as a Public Health Program Associate in 2018.

She currently is the Program Director for the nationwide mailed HIV self-testing distribution program Together TakeMeHome (together.takemehome.org). They previously worked on the projects Home-MaDE, Know@Home (iSTAMP), the Moblie Messaging Study (M3), and Stronger Together.