Meet the IPP Team

Our Team 

​Leonard Rubio
Executive Director

Leonard spent over 23 years incarcerated within California’s jail and prison system for a 15-year-to-life sentence for second degree murder. While incarcerated at San Quentin, Leonard created the Responsibility, Rehabilitation, & Restoration Interfaith Roundtable to promote restorative justice by including prisoners and volunteers from many faith and ethnic backgrounds to work together. Leonard participated in numerous IPP programs as a participant and as co-facilitator for: Victim/Offender Education Group (VOEG), Next Step, the Violence Prevention Program, Violence Prevention Program Facilitator Training, and many others. Leonard earned an Associate of Arts Degree in General Education from Patten University and created other opportunities for prisoners to further their education. Since his release, he has married, earned a bachelor’s degree in both Finance and Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of San Francisco (USF), was awarded the USF Archbishop Oscar Romero Leadership Award, and continues to promote restorative justice through public speaking. Leonard and his wife Aouie have been featured in USF Magazine Summer 2013 for their work in restorative justice. 
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leonard@insightprisonproject.org

Dr. Andrea Travers
Replication Program Coordinator

Andrea's life includes a varied and distinguished career across many fields in which management and people/program development were a focus. After 30 years in business, she entered the social service sector first through volunteerism, and later developing and managing programs in addictions/recovery, mental health, and corrections. She has earned degrees in Journalism, Communications, Addiction Counseling and Ministry. Andrea is an ordained Interfaith Minister and completed her doctoral work by translating the principles of A.A. in eight faith traditions, which is being utilized in over 75 countries. In 2007, Andrea opened Stepping Stones, a supportive housing program that promotes early reunification of mothers with their children in foster care. Andrea is based in San Diego and she introduced Victim/Offender Education Groups (VOEG) programs there as a volunteer at RJ Donovan State Prison, George F. Bailey, and Las Colinas Detention & Reentry Centers. 

andrea@insightprisonproject.org

Lucio Ramirez
Office Manager & Executive Assistant to the Director

 Lucio Ramirez is a first generation Mexican-American, born in Southern California. From an early age, Lucio has been involved in leadership and philanthropic ventures with several communities including the elderly, LGBTQ+, and most recently the transfer and nontraditional communities in higher education. Lucio holds degrees in Business Management, Economics, Urban Studies/City planning, and a BA in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley. During his time at Cal, He was the Chief Financial Officer for the Re-entry and Transfer student association, External Chairman of the ASUC Post-Traditional Commission, and Elections Council Chairman for the ASUC.

It was during his time at Cerritos Community College that Lucio began to notice the social impacts of policies which oftentimes target individuals in marginalized communities. As a student employee, he worked in the Transfer Center where he would create an energetic atmosphere to motivate and encourage and help students to apply to UC schools rather than the Cal State System. To this day, Lucio’s goal is to uplift voices that have been oppressed or silenced.  It is this drive for the creation and supporting of equity and inclusion  that got him interested in the work being done by the Insight Prison Project. Lucio is happily married and has an adorable dog named Maritza. 

Lucio@insightprisonproject.org