MEET BLANCA RUIZ
Dr. Blanca Ruiz (she/her/ella) is a public-school educator, leader, and ICF certified leadership coach with over 20 years of experience in teaching and leadership in public/charter schools. She maintains an ongoing commitment to disrupting racial inequities in organizational practices and actively increasing consciousness to unlearn, relearn and disrupt biases in structures, policies, and practices. She practices strengths-based and human-centered coaching as a means towards learning and development. She blends her experience and expertise to facilitate workshops on leadership development, change management, and the impact of socialization and identity on decision-making.
She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership with a focus on Authenticity in Latina Leadership. Blanca is an independent consultant who blends her leadership development experience with her anti-oppression and racial consciousness lens as a leadership coach, and an anti-racism facilitator for teachers, leaders, and parents. She is also passionate about working with students on being their own best advocates. When Blanca is not coaching or facilitating workshops, she is hydrating, eating vegan donuts, or decanting and labeling. More often than not, she is basking in mothering two amazing children who continue to teach her the importance of honesty, unapologetic presence and that true liberation is possible.
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
— Audre Lorde