Gary Ruskin is executive director of U.S. Right to Know. Since 2014, he has led public interest investigations for USRTK that drive global news coverage about corporate malfeasance or government failures that harm public health. His work has been featured in multiple New York Times articles; more than a dozen articles in the BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical journals; and in news outlets around the world, including in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Monde, Guardian, Sky News Australia, Vanity Fair, Daily Mail, CBC, Boston Globe, Politico, and many more. 

He has co-authored 16 peer-reviewed public health journal articles about the influence of the food industry and its impacts on public health. 

For 14 years, he directed the Congressional Accountability Project, which opposed corruption in the U.S. Congress, and promoted federal transparency reforms, including placing the core working documents of our democracy on the Internet.

For eight years, he was executive director (and co-founder, with Ralph Nader) of Commercial Alert, a public interest group that opposed the marketing of junk food to children and the spread of the commercial culture to every nook and cranny of our lives. 

He has also authored or co-authored articles in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Mothering, and many others.

He has been quoted hundreds of times in major newspapers and has appeared scores of times on national TV news programs.

Gary received a B.A. from Carleton College and a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Contact Gary: gary@usrtk.org