Speaker Profile

Rukiya Bonner

Director, Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) / BBB National Programs

Rukiya Bonner is an experienced media attorney, and standards and compliance expert. She served as the Director of Standards and Practices for Warner Bros. Discovery creating strategies and solutions for potentially problematic content. Rukiya has over a decade of experience in brand protection and children’s commercial clearance. She recently accepted the role of the Director for BBB National Programs’ Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU). CARU protects children from deceptive and inappropriate advertising, and helps companies comply with laws and guidance to ensure children’s date is handled responsibly in a digital environment. She is passionate about the work, and as a mother, fully understands how impressionable children can be.

A native of Washington, DC, Rukiya received her B.A. from Spelman College, her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, MO, and was also a visiting scholar at George Washington School of Law in Washington, DC.