Michele Ruiz Biography
Michele Ruiz is a business owner, award-winning broadcast journalist, author, public speaker, and former KNBC-TV news anchor in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and CEO of BiasSync, a SaaS technology company that assists organizations in identifying and eliminating workplace biases.
Michele Ruiz Age
Ruiz was born on January 21, 1965, in Glendale, California, United States of America. She is 58 years old as of January 2023.
Michele Ruiz Education
She attended Cal State Fullerton while working full-time as a clerical assistant and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications in 1988.
Michele Ruiz Family
Ruiz was born and raised in Glendale, California. Ruiz described a difficult childhood growing up in Southern California with her Panamanian parents. Her first language was Spanish, and she didn’t start learning English until she started school.
Michele Ruiz Husband- Children
She has not gone public with her relationship. However, it is not known whether she is married, engaged, divorced, or single. However, she has two children.
Michele Ruiz Career
She is the co-founder and CEO of BiasSync, a SaaS technology company that assists organizations in identifying and eliminating workplace biases. She is also the President and CEO of Ruiz Strategies, a communications firm that creates and implements content marketing strategies for businesses, governments, and executives. She is the founder and former president and CEO of SaberHacer.com, a bilingual educational broadband website for Hispanics in the United States. MicheleRuiz.com is the home of her self-titled blog. Ruiz began her broadcasting career as a co-anchor on Channel One News in 1989. Before its national debut in 1990, the program began as a pilot program broadcast in four high schools. Ruiz began her broadcasting career as a co-anchor on Channel One News in 1989.
Ruiz worked as a field reporter and morning anchor for KTLA’s KTLA Morning News in Los Angeles, California, from 1991 to 1998. She also co-hosted Making It! Minority Success Stories, a weekly public affairs program. She began working as a general assignment reporter for KNBC-TV in 1998. In 2001, she was promoted to anchor, where she co-anchored the station’s evening newscast at 6:00 p.m. with Chuck Henry.[Two angel investors agreed to provide seed capital for Ruiz’s business idea in 2005. She left KNBC two months later to become an entrepreneur.
Ruiz launched Saberhacer.com, a bilingual educational broadband website for Hispanics in the United States, in 2006.
Ruiz established her personal brand, “Michele Ruiz My Life as a Latina Entrepreneur,” and launched the website MicheleRuiz.com. She writes about her personal and professional life on her self-titled blog. Ruiz founded Ruiz Strategies in 2011, a strategic communications and content marketing services firm that helps businesses and individuals promote themselves through social media, new media, traditional media, and virtual technologies. Ruiz co-founded BiasSync, a SaaS technology company focusing on anti-bias identification, with Dan Gould, former Tinder VP of Technology, and fellow entrepreneur Robin Richards in May 2019. For 13 years, Ruizhas served on the Board of Directors of the non-profit organization Para Los Nios. She has also served on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Cal State Fullerton College of Communications.
Michele Ruiz Awards
Ruiz has received 19 Emmy Award nominations and has been honored five times, as well as four times with the Golden Mike Award. She won three Los Angeles-area Emmys and two Golden Mikes while at KTLA. She received two more Emmys in 2003 for her work on the NBC4 news specials “Journey to Africa” and “LA Riots: Rubble to Rebirth.” She has received numerous awards, including two Golden Mikes, for her work on NBC4’s “Beating the Odds” series, and was awarded the LA Press Club Award in 2002 for a series on autism.
Michele Ruiz Net Worth
Ruiz has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.
