Ruth Jurgensen

Ruth Jurgensen is a passionate education and nonprofit leader. Prior to joining the NBA Foundation in 2024, Ruth served as Prep for Prep as CEO for over four years. She has vast experience in education, including her role as Associate Principal at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, overseeing educational programs and operations, and before that, High School Principal at LREI (Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School), an independent, progressive school in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Ruth earned her undergraduate degree in English Literature from Connecticut College and has a master’s degree in English and American Literature from Brown University. Ruth serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Brooklyn Museum, and is an advisor to Kura Labs, a nonprofit that offers free training and a job placement academy for students from underserved communities interested in Infrastructure Computing, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering. Past service includes Moorestown Friends School in New Jersey, LREI in New York, and The Dovetail Project, a Chicago-based nonprofit that helps young African-American and Hispanic men with fatherhood.