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Ruth C. White, PhD MPH MSW RSW
Dr. White currently works as Advisor on equity, diversity, and inclusion at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where she also is also a sessional lecturer at the Factor-Inwentash School of Social Work.
Before that, she spent 7 years as Clinical Associate Professor in the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at the University of Southern California, where she taught leadership, management, program evaluation and social policy to MSW students. Prior to that she gained tenure during her 11 years at Seattle University, where she taught social policy, data analysis, research methods, race & ethnicity, global social welfare, and community organizing to BSW and sociology students. In addition, she led an interdisciplinary study-abroad program in Belize for 5 years, and founded/managed a successful health improvement program in maternal and child health in rural Njeru, Uganda for 5 years.
Dr. White has also taught as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, Simmons, and Fordham University. As a social worker, she has worked in child welfare, substance abuse and residential treatment settings in Canada, the UK and the USA.
With more than 20 years of speaking to thousands of people in a wide variety of sectors across the globe, Dr. White has built a reputation for thought-provoking keynotes, lectures and workshops that lead to paradigm shifts, organizational change and personal growth.
Dr. White writes for Thrive Global, and authors a popular blog on the Psychology Today platform. She also blogs on Medium. She is the author of 4 books including The Stress Management Workbook and Everyday Stress Relief. Ruth was educated at UC Berkeley, McGill University (Canada), London School of Economics and the University of Ottawa (Canada).
Born in the UK, Ruth grew up in Jamaica and Canada, and lived on the west coast of the USA for many years before recently returning to Toronto. Ruth’s wide range of accomplishments include: being a stand-in for Serena Williams as an extra; modeling for agencies in Paris, London, San Francisco & Toronto; SCUBA certifications in open water, Nitrox and drysuit; and, being a high school and college track star. Dr. White is the mother of an adult daughter, with whom she shares a passion for outdoor activities, especially hiking. An avid traveler, with a love for off-the-beaten-path wanders, her sense of adventure has led her to raft the Class IV rapids of the Pacuare (Costa Rica) and the White Nile (Uganda), hike to the top of Blue Mountain (Jamaica), and kayak from Orcas Island to Sucia Island in the Pacific Northwest Region of the USA. Her new passion for travel writing includes pieces in Conde Nast Traveler UK & US editions, and Adventure.
