📸 Authentic photographer & storyteller specializing in powerful people & movements. Brand identity architect. ♎️ ⚖️ Social justice advocate. 💫 Content Creator | Creative media consultant. ✊🏽 Liberation Seeker. 📝 Ex-writer/producer: High Times Magazine, Vibe Magazine, DUB Magazine, All Hip Hop, et al. ➡️ Founder & Creative Consultant, TRu iNk® Media LLC ⬇️ 2020 Highlights ⬇️ ⚖️ Investigation Discovery (True Crime Network) Influencer, #IDxPOV is a new project that amplifies the voices of people affected by crime or the criminal justice system that are not typically heard. 12/2020 🖼 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated my first solo photo exhibition “Hope Rebellion & Justice,” 08-09 to 08/29/2020. (THE most successful, in the gallery’s 40 year history.) 🎬 AJ+ Field Producer: forthcoming short social justice documentary 📺 CBS This Morning, photo placement, “Cariol Horne: Calls for probe of Buffalo cop’s 2008 firing” segment, 06/09/2020. 🎥 Buffalo Toronto Public Media (WNED-PBS) Community Filmaker: “Making Buffalo Home” short TV & web segment that tells the compelling stories of immigrants who made Buffalo home, 12/30/2020. ⚖️ University at Buffalo Law School, Civil Rights & Transparency Clinic: digital photo licensing agreement, 09/2020. 📽 Concreates Inc., story producer: cultural awareness in-studio film project, Los Angeles, 09/2020. 👁 Recent Press: 📻 WBFO - NPR (Buffalo Toronto Public Media) “Tito Ruiz's camera is his 'weapon of choice' in exhibit featuring Buffalo police protests,” 08/26/2020 📰 Buffalo News: “CEPA reopens with exhibit on social activism,” 08/10/2020 🏫 SUNY Buffalo State College 📚 MS in Creativity, Innovation, & Change Leadership (in progress). 👨🏽‍🎓 BS, Digital Media & Brand Management.