Ruth joins The POGIL Project team as administrative assistant.
 Ruth handles registration for three-day workshops, handles CEU credits, answers The POGIL Project email, and prepares materials for meetings. She worked in the education field for 11 years and previously worked as a medical illustrator in Chicago, spending two years as a medical illustrator and office manager for Medicom Audiovisual Company and later working as the medical illustrator for University Neurosurgeons and Northwestern Memorial Hospital, responsible for all artwork, macro and micro photography, exhibits and audiovisual presentations for teaching seminars. She also was responsible for the preliminary editing and production and coordination of art for a book on neurosurgery. She has worked as a freelance illustrator and participated in a variety of projects, including the "Consultation" television series. 

Ruth earned her B.S. in Biomedical Communications from the University of Illinois.