Ruby Dickson | |
District: | 37th |
Term Start: | January 9, 2023 |
Term End: | December 11, 2023 |
State House: | Colorado |
Predecessor: | Tom Sullivan |
Successor: | Chad Clifford |
Party: | Democratic |
Education: | Lawrence University (BA) University of Oxford (MPhil) |
Ruby Dickson is an American politician and economist who served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives, representing the 37th district from January to December 2023.
Dickson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and Chinese from Lawrence University and a Master of Philosophy in economics from the University of Oxford.[1]
In 2014, Dickson was a legislative assistant for Congressman Jared Polis. From 2016 to 2019, she was a senior consulting analyst at Optum. In 2020 and 2021, she worked as a research assistant at the Blavatnik School of Government. Since 2021, she has worked as a research economist at Rethink Priorities.[2] Dickson was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in November 2022.[3] On December 1, 2023, she announced that she would resign from the legislature effective December 11, citing the "sensationalistic and vitriolic nature of the current political environment".[4]