Anjelica Ruiz is the Director of Libraries and Archives at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas. She holds a BA in criminology from St. Edward’s University, an MS in criminal justice from Texas State University, and an MS in library science from the University of North Texas. She is part of cohort 11 of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's Executive Masters in Jewish Education program. She sits on the Commission on Social Action of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and is an alumna of the Union for Reform Judaism’s JewV’Nation Fellowship and Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program. She is passionate about writing and has attended the Yale Writers Workshop. She has published an essay about her conversion to Judaism and writes on her website, www.anjelicaruiz.com. She is married to Stephen Tinnin and they share three children, Tinnin, Nora, and Eliza.
