W.  Ruth Harvin, Ed D is a native of North Carolina and was educated in the New Hanover Country Public Schools. After graduating from Winston-Salem State University in Winston -Salem, NC, Ruth was successful in securing her first teaching job in Frederic County Maryland. While there, she entered gradate school at Howard University in Washington, DC and completed an internship at Open Door Shelter and Stepping Stones Shelter while working full time. 

After marrying a soldier, she took a break from teaching and became a stay at home wife and eventually a mother of two sons. Marrying a soldier presented another set of opportunities for her as she was able to travel the world. During the last year of their tour in Frankfurt, Germany Ruth had the privilege of working at Central Texas Collage at the Army Education Center as a test proctor and counselor. This was her first taste of working with adult learners. After her husband was stationed in AZ and two tour in Europe, the family returned to the states and relocated to San Antonio, TX. Ruth then re-entered the full time work force as a teacher in NISD. She eventually sought completed an alternative certification program for school administrators. 

Ruth's experiences have included serving as and assistant principal (KISD, AISD) and principal at the elementary level (WISD, AISD) and high school principal (public charter schools) for a total of 13 years. She has also been a district administrator, serving as Associate Superintendent of Personnel and Deputy Superintendent in a public charter school district. 

Ruth has worked in SAISD in the Curriculum and Instruction deparment as an instructional literacy coach. Her love of working with adult learners extended to working as Program Coordinator for an alternative principal certification program (McNeil Education Ecumenical foundation) as well as an adjunct instructor at the University of Phoenix teaching undergraduate courses in the  School of Psychology and graduate courses for the School of Education.