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

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.

bev@insightprisonproject.org

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. 

andrea@insightprisonproject.org