A 70s classic spoke of "hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky" where one can wake up to the "feel of sunlight in the morning away from city life." Quezon City-born and bred, Ruby recalled these lines which rang in her head so clearly when Ruby took the chance in the time of the pandemic to station in her mom's beach home in the province of Zambales. It turned out to be an answered prayer for the media professional with almost four decades of immersion in the bustle of goings-on in the metropolis and the world. Living so close to nature now, she is sharing her gifts in her engagements with SIGLA.

In July 2020, Ruby took on the reins of leadership as president of the Carl Jung Circle Center, a non-profit organization of professionals devoted to the pursuit of Jungian psychology studies and initiatives. Her enthusiasm for depth psychology was jumpstarted by a summer course at the Ateneo de Manila on Jungian psychology, adds fuel to her work in designing incisive and insightful communications campaigns under RubyComm-K.Austria Ltd. Co, a public relations firm she co-founded after years of solid experience as a newspaper operations executive, copy editor and reporter. Clients served include industry leaders in travel and tourism, real estate, education, logistics, financial services, energy, and retail.

Ruby was also a consultant of the Asian Development Bank for its Technical Assistance program for the Public Private Partnership Center. She is faculty member of the Development Academy of the Philippines for its Public Management Development Program.

Ruby is passionate about helping Filipinos help themselves. Her keen interest in rousing Filipinos about their innate qualities that can lead to soulful living has found expression in the play "Halo-Halo Tayo: The Delicious and Colorfully Complex Filipino Soul" which she wrote for CJCC. Another work, "Ang Babaeng Naghahanap ng Nawawalang Gininutang Pinggan" is in a "collab" process with graphic artists for an oline production. She is taking part in an anthology of memoirs, a project of co-graduates of a six-month memoir writing course Deep Memoir by Dr. Jennifer Leigh Selig, also a CJCC resource person on Dream Tending.

Ruby, an AB Journalism graduate at UP Diliman, was founding president of the Foreign Affairs Press Corps, She was a grantee of the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii on its "Asia Pacific Regional Economic and Security Issues" program for Asian media, on "ASEAN-EC Relations" in Brussels, Belgium by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and the UNESCAP Seminar on Environment and Media at the University of Chulalangkorn in Bangkok, Thailand. A former human resource manager of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, she served in the external relations committee in her time with then Personnel Management Association of the Philippines. She is also a trainor on internal and external communications for key organizations, taking to heart the song lines that say for sure "we will run through the sunlight" when there is a "bridge..between us".