Ray Ibarra has been an attorney supervisor in the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Department of Public Advocacy since 2018. Graduating from Georgetown Law in Washington, DC in 2009 and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication in 2005, Ray has served as a public defender in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara County, California, and Montgomery County, Maryland. In 2011, he joined DPA as an Equal Justice Works Public Defender Corps Fellow specializing in Pretrial Release Litigation. Ray represented clients in district, circuit, and family court as an attorney in the Newport and Covington Trial Offices, and as the Directing Attorney of the Cynthiana Trial Office. Ray serves on faculty at DPA Education events as well as at Gideon’s Promise, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a community of committed and passionate advocates to strengthen public defense throughout the country. Ray is a proud foster parent and along with his wife Andrea Kendall—who is the Directing Attorney of DPA’s Capital Trial Branch East Unit – they have a combined total of twenty years, and eight household moves, in the service of public defense reform.