Renee had this to say about Ali: 

Ali Ruffner both creates and teaches with a full heart, a high degree of empathy and activism, and finely tuned attentiveness to an ethics of care and respect for all. Their work, often collaborative, supports platforms and outlets for the voices and visions of community members to be widely heard and witnessed. Ali is a force to be reckoned with. They stand up for and with others ceaselessly through their work, teaching, and self - never straying from their commitment to radical imaginings of a better now.