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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Yadira Ramirez
Program Manager
Yadira Ramirez is IPP’s Program Manager. She has been an educator within the Sacramento and Oakland school districts and has been holding Restorative Justice practices with the youth for the past 7 years. She has facilitated and co-facilitated RJ circles, led DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) trainings, and developed curriculum around SEL (Social Emotional Learning) objectives within the schools. Working with the youth all these years has been a rewarding experience for Yadira and she is grateful for her experiences within the education system because it has allowed her to get to where she is today. In 2022, Yadira decided to take a break from working with the youth and found her way volunteering and working within CDCR. She is a current member of the Insight Garden Program at Solano and San Quentin State Prison. Here, is where she had the opportunity to do another thing she loves, garden and steward land, alongside people that have been system impacted. Yadira identifies as an abolitionist and seeks to be apart of a world where no one is placed in cages. She is thrilled to be able to take part in RJ practices with folks on the inside and support the process of unlearning and relearning. Yadira believes when we practice accountability as an act of love it can become the vehicle for our collective healing and liberation.

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Sabrina Boutiette
Administrative Coordinator
Sabrina joined IPP in 2023 as the Administrative Coordinator. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in Planning, Public Policy and Management. At the University of Oregon, Sabrina first got involved with the criminal justice system through an internship with the Prison Education Program, which provided educational opportunities for people incarcerated in Oregon’s prisons. Prior to joining IPP Sabrina worked at the Portland Parks Foundation, where she helped develop more efficient programs and operations. Sabrina’s dedication to creating a more just, inclusive and connective world brought her to work at IPP.


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Bev Shelby
Advisory Board President & Volunteer Coordinator
Bev is an Executive Event Planner and she is also a long time volunteer with Insight Prison Project. Having completed her Victim Offender Education Group (VOEG) training, Bev began facilitating an IPP sponsored program in San Quentin called KidCAT; “Kid” stands for the age the offenders were when they were sentenced (all were juveniles) and “CAT” stands for “Creating Awareness Together.” KidCAT was developed as a way for incarcerated people to give back to the community inside and outside, and it utilizes a restorative justice framework in a six month program that focuses on early childhood development. Bev brings her project management and event planning skills to IPP, including planning IPP's largest fundraiser of the year, is a facilitator trainer for the Phase 1: Basic Victim Offender Education Group Facilitation Skills Training, and is currently serving as our volunteer coordinator.  Bev has served on the IPP Board of Directors since 2014 and transitioned to the Advisory Board of Directors with the merger of IPP into Five Keys Schools and Programs in 2020.

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Dr. Andrea Travers
VOEG Coordinator
R.J. Donovan
Correctional Facility
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. 

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Insight Prison Project
A Division of Five Keys Schools and Programs
P.O. Box 29
San Quentin, CA 94964
Tel: 415.459.9800
Email:  [email protected]
Tax ID #:  81-0622701