Today you will meet Sandy Rodriguez who is the Sr. Manager of Prison Programs for Defy Ventures. She oversees the in-prison programs at six correctional institutions in southern California. Sandy’s goal is to provide an excellent program to entrepreneurs in training (EITs) while simultaneously maintaining a transformative relationship with the prison and the reentry community. Sandy is proud to continue her work as an advocate for her community in dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline. She strives to be an anti-racist abolitionist who recognizes that her upbringing as a child of immigrants in Southeast Los Angeles is directly tied to her professional career in the criminal justice field.