Ruhi Bengali is the Senior Advisor for Implementation at Everytown for Gun Safety, leading the organization’s effort to better implement and enforce existing gun safety laws. She joined Everytown’s research team in 2016 and oversees a team of researchers, whose work has provided critical data and evidence to support the organization’s state and federal legislative campaigns across the country, as well as drawing critical connections between gun violence and intimate partner violence and the impact of gun violence on children and teens and school violence.
Prior to Everytown, Ruhi worked in the research team at New American Economy, a nonprofit focusing on immigration reform. Ruhi has also done stints in the NYC Mayor’s Office, the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and as an organizer for an anti-poverty campaign, The Borgen Project. She has two graduate degrees-an MSc in Development Economics from the University of London and a MPA in Public Policy from NYU. Ruhi grew up in Mumbai, India and moved to New York City in 2013.