Brandy Ruiz is the editor-in-chief for Minero Magazine. She is a multimedia journalism student at UTEP with a minor in political science and marketing. Born and raised in San Diego, CA to a military father and a Mexican native mother as well as being a first-generation college student, she found herself immersed in a world of policies that impacted her family greatly and in turn fueled her interest in politics. She became a writer and copy-editor for Minero magazine during her first year at UTEP and has since gone on to intern and write for a non-profit online news organization, NOWCastSA.com in the summer of 2020. Additionally, Ruiz at 17 years old interned for Latinitas, an online publication for young Latinxs and is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She is interested in Tech and audience.

You can find her on Twitter @brcndy.