Gary is passionate about social justice reform and ending mass incarceration. He comes to IGP with two years of experience in running rehabilitative programming inside of Folsom State Prison and working with the reentry population since 2019. During that time, he also worked with previously incarcerated individuals at the community college level as a case manager with Re-Emerging Scholars an equity program for those impacted by incarceration at Sacramento City College. He aims to assist in removing barriers and empower both formerly incarcerated and currently incarcerated individuals achieve their educational and rehabilitative goals.

In 2021 he earned his Master’s Degree in Social Work from California State University, Sacramento where he was a member of Project Rebound and the Student Association of Social Work. Throughout his decade of freedom from incarceration Gary has worked with such vulnerable populations such those facing homelessness, food insecurity, mental illness, incarceration, and those on parole.