Martin Leyva

Martin Leyva is the Program Coordinator for Project Rebound at California State University-San Marcos. He is a current student in the Joint Doctoral Program at UCSD/CSUSM in Education and holds an MA in Sociological Practice, a BA in Liberal Arts/Psychology from Antioch University, and is CAADE Certified Drug and Alcohol Treatment Counselor. Martin has a strong passion for social justice and human rights issues.  He has spoken and shared at multiple venues, including universities throughout California and the American Society of Criminology. He has led trainings on best practices for working with formerly incarcerated individuals, emotional intelligence, and spiritual self care. He is well known for his abilities with gang intervention/prevention and mediation skills and for helping those with drug and alcohol issues.