Guide.
Transform.
Disrupt.

Through human-centered personalized coaching, workshop facilitation or strategic planning sessions, Dr. Blanca Ruiz works with individuals, schools and organizations to reflect on messages we have internalized, and the impact these messages have on our decision-making. Blanca encourages us to examine our selves as an integral component of moving towards action. She encourages us to blend both head-and-heart work to become disruptors and interrupters of racial oppression.

Work with
Dr. Blanca Ruiz

Coaching

Throughout this partnership, Dr. Ruiz works with individuals and organizations to gain perspective on what it means to be critical conscious and lead for equity. Together they develop both immediate and long-term goals for the school. She works with leaders to reflect on data and evaluate follow-up from the analysis.

Facilitating

Dr. Ruiz uses her training space to serve as a facilitator of learning. She works with teams and individuals to build a scope and sequence of workshops. Participants build content knowledge, engage in individual, small group, and large group reflection and dialogue. Participants then apply their learning to a tactical task.

Consulting

Dr. Ruiz works with both individuals and teams to ensure there is mission and vision alignment anchoring in racially equitable practices. She utilizes change management frameworks to drive individual, school and organizational transformation. Dr. Ruiz works with clients to gather data before strategically planning.

  • “The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”

    - James Baldwin

Personalized
Coaching

Dr. Ruiz leverages her leadership experiences to support partners in their work, and customizes her sessions to the specific needs of the individuals, the school and/or the organization. 

Mi Voz

I invite you into the many conversations that happen in my mind. Storytelling is a powerful ancestral gift and while I often keep these to myself, I am sharing as a means of connection, affirmation and healing. I honor my voice throughout this process and am in constant work on embracing imperfections, and my hope is that these words embody that. May they help breathe life into your inner light…

Mi Voz
Mi Voz, Mi Testimonio

I went to public elementary and middle schools before being placed into a private independent high school by a program focused on diversifying independent schools in NYC. There, I earned high grades despite my difficulty socializing. I struggled at home being the only female; except for my mother, I had no other female presence.

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Mis Pensamientos: Beating Imposter Syndrome

I am a Nuyorican, Puerto Rican, Brooklyn born, mother, wife, youngest child, only daughter, 1st gen college, socially mobile, vegan, entrepreneur, educationally decorated cisgender female… that is a lot and yet there is more! And I hold that daily in all aspects of my life.

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What is Authenticity?

The journey towards dissertation started in my own lived experience and the experiences of many women of color I coached. Are there limitations and choices to how authentic I can be? Should I wait for a seat at the table? Should I bring a chair? Should I bust in like Method Man in SWV’s Anything Remix with a “Kaboom, guess who stepped in the room?”

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