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Ruth is the senior vice president of corporate communications and executive director of the IMA Foundation for the IMA Financial Group. In this position, Ruth oversees internal communications, public relations, and corporate social responsibility for IMA and its 2,000 associates across the U.S. Prior to joining IMA in May 2011, Ruth was the manager of community relations for Comcast Mile High Region. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama and has a Master’s degree from Chapman University. She also received a certificate in corporate community involvement management from the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Ruth currently serves as Vice-Chair of the MSU Denver Foundation board of directors, and also serves on the boards of the Denver Public Schools Foundation, National Sports Center for the Disabled, the Women’s Foundation of Colorado and the University of Alabama College of Communications & Information Sciences. She is past chair of the board of the Denver Chamber Leadership Foundation and the American Red Cross Mile High Chapter. Ruth completed the Colorado Governor’s Fellowship Program in 2018, is a 2006 graduate of Leadership Denver and a 2012 graduate of the Downtown Denver Partnership Leadership Program. In 2007, she was selected as one of Denver’s Forty Under 40 by the Denver Business Journal. In 2022, Ruth was honored as a Top Woman in Communications by Ragan Communications and in 2018 was named one of Colorado’s Top 25 Most Powerful Women by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce.