Ruth is a current MSFS student in the Science, Technology and International Affairs Concentration and an International Business Diplomacy Honors Certificate candidate. She is the 2021 MSFS African Scholar Award recipient. She is President of the Georgetown SFS Net Impact Chapter and Co-Chair of the Georgetown Africa Business Conference (2023).

Prior to graduate study at Georgetown, Ruth co-founded a fintech start-up that aimed to promote financial inclusion and spur economic activity by providing loans to low-income earners through non-traditional lending in Nigeria. Her desire to merge her love for tech innovation and social impact led her to create educational development programs for teachers in underserved communities across Nigeria to aid their knowledge delivery efforts. She founded an edutech NGO that worked to develop IT skills training programs for youths across African communities. Ruth worked as a program manager for a Canadian social enterprise that worked to create access to education and skills for disadvantaged children in remote communities across Africa. She facilitated programs that worked to improve access to quality education for women and girls in crisis and fragile situations across Africa.

Ruth is interested in corporate social impact and the role of the tech sector in solving systemic challenges across developing countries. Post Georgetown, Ruth hopes to develop a career working at the intersection of policy and innovation, and emerging technology.

"I chose MSFS because the quality of the faculty and network it offers its students is unrivaled and it is the number one international affairs program that offers a solid platform for building cross-sectoral global leaders."