Ruth is an award-winning campaigner, researcher and writer on all things single parenting related. In 2020, after writing to Dominic Cummings and successfully lobbying Number 10 to introduce support bubbles for single parents throughout lockdown, she set up the campaign group Single Parent Rights. Ruth regularly speaks at key events highlighting single parent discrimination in the UK and in 2021, she won the Single Mums Business Network Campaigner of the year award.  

She has been interviewed on various television and radio stations including Channel 4 News, BBC Radio 4's PM Programme, Radio 5 Live and LBC . She has been published in the Guardian, Grazia, i News, the Metro and Harper’s Bazaar, amongst other publications.  She has contributed to several books including How to be a Happy Single Parent by Zoe Desmond and Rebecca Cox, Get Divorced, Be Happy by Helen Thorne, Holding the Baby by Polly Braden and Work Parent by Daisy Dowling, as well as being published in the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, King's College London.

Ruth assisted in editing Going it Alone: A guide for solo mums in the UK by Emily Engel and has contributed to Independent Family Planning: Choosing solo motherhood through gamete donation, a booklet for Solo Mums by Choice edited by Grace Halden (Birkbeck). In 2023 she contributed to the design of temporary accommodation for single mothers which was long listed for The Davidson Prize. She is also part of a podcast series curated by On the Record on childcare in the UK.

In her spare time Ruth raises her three young boys solo and works part-time at a children's charity.