Casa Ruby, Ruby Corado, resigned Friday morning in a video after the group announced the Washington, D.C. Department of Human Services would not be renewing an almost $850,000 grant.“I realized that I cannot fight the system,” Corado tells The Advocate of her resignation. “The system is not meant to support people who are in need.
The system is meant for it to grow and to maintain itself.”Corado took to Facebook Live to break the news. “I have made the decision, an earlier decision, to step down from my role as executive director effective today," she said Friday.
The loss of the grant put the organization in danger of shuttering.Introducing the interim director, Alexis Blackmon, Corado said, “She is truly committed to the clients.”In the.