Work with Actors Theatre

Ruffin is a co-creator and executive producer of Beyond the Crossroads, combining her love for music with her expertise in XR to explore the rich Black history of jazz and blues. A thinker, designer, and leader interested in building sustainable, anti-racist systems and organizations, her work explores leveraging new technologies to combat racial and economic injustice.

Ruffin is the co-founder of Crux Cooperative, and also serves as co-CEO of Fractured Atlas, the largest association of independent artists in the United States. In 2017, she started Artist Campaign School, an educational program that has trained 74 artists to run for political office. She has served on the governing boards of Black Girls Code and Main Street Phoenix Cooperative and on the advisory boards of ArtUp and Black Girl Ventures.