She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she received her Master’s of Science in Nursing with a dual degree in Nurse Midwifery and Women´s Health/Gender Related Nurse Practitioner. She did her main clinical rotations at Jennersville Regional Hospital in West Grove, Pennsylvania, as well as with a home birth practice in the Hudson Valley, New York. She is certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board as a Nurse Midwife, and by the National Certification Corporation as a Women´s Health Nurse Practitioner. Before Midwifery, Ruth worked as a labor and delivery nurse in a New York City hospital.