Ruth Grayson is a retired academic who has been closely involved with voluntary projects relating to unemployment and homelessness in Sheffield for the past 20 years.   Her concerns regarding the environment in general and consumerism in particular stem from the well documented relationship between homelessness and personal debt.  

On a lighter note, she loves family time, and some of her other interests include choral singing, creative writing, and walking her dog (minus her two cats)!