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Ruth Shaber

Ruth Shaber

Founder + President, Tara Health Foundation

Ruth Shaber is the founder and president of the Tara Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes and invests in programs aimed at health, well-being, and opportunities for women and girls. She is also the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a group of foundations and investors devoted to reproductive health in the United States, and was a gynecologist and obstetrician at Kaiser Permanente for 22 years. Selected as a Forbes 2020 Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit—and Pushing for Change for her work in impact investing, Shaber, is also the founder of the Women’s Health Research Institute.

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