Rebecca Ruiz is a senior features writer at Mashable. She frequently covers mental health, science, parenting, and politics for Mashable's Social Good coverage. She has also reported on gender and equality for the site.

Ruiz has been a staff writer at Forbes, staff reporter at NBC News Digital, and special reports project director at The American Prospect. She has also reported for The Atlantic and Al Jazeera America and hosted the Military Medicine blog at Forbes.com. Ruiz is particularly interested in how people make choices about their well-being, and how larger structural forces influence those decisions. She was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow in 2011 and 2012.

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