Dr. Rubio holds a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from The University of New Mexico, a master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from The University of Michigan, and a doctorate in education from The University of Michigan. He worked as a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories for five years and has been teaching in higher education career since 1996 in science education and educator preparation. He has taught at Albion College, Spring Arbor University, and is currently with Indiana Wesleyan University. Dr. Rubio currently serves as an Associate Professor for Indiana Wesleyan University in the School of Educational Leadership, National & Global campus, where he is the department chair for master’s programs in education. He teaches courses at the master’s and doctoral levels along with dissertation chairing and advising on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has taught in English and in Spanish. Dr. Rubio has a heart to teach students within a Christian higher education context, and especially to help advance the understanding and careers of people of color and their allies.

Dr. Rubio is Mexican-American and a native of New Mexico, currently residing in Michigan. He has been married since 1985 to Kathleen, a long-time home-schooling mom who is also a pediatric and home health care nurse. They have seven children, two sons-in-law, five grandchildren, a dog, a cat, three piano/keyboards, four cars, seven guitars, four basses, six bathrooms, and eleven computers. Reuben enjoys playing bass, acoustic and electric guitar, reading, bicycling, watching movies or TV with his family and then discussing it afterward, ballroom dancing, talking and watching basketball and baseball, and driving on road trips. He has been involved in leading worship in one form or another since 1976, in Catholic, non-denominational, and Wesleyan churches as well as parachurch groups, and doing this together with his wife one year after they were married. He currently helps lead worship at two churches, one with his wife and the other as the leader as that church is bilingual in Spanish/English. They are also members of a Christian band called Braking 4 Change. They became fans of Robert Webber through Ancient-Future Worship, and his wife has been using the fourfold approach to worship planning for many years.