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A native of northern California, I grew up in San Carlos, CA. After attending Stanford University as an undergrad (AB, International Relations, 1992), I joined the Society of Jesus, the Roman Catholic religious order founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1540. My Jesuit life has taken me from Los Angeles and Mexico (for my novitiate), to New York (MA, Philosophy, Fordham University), San Jose (teaching Spanish, Economics, and International Relations at Bellarmine College Preparatory), Honduras (working with reconstruction efforts after Hurricane Mitch), and to Berkeley (MDiv, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley). I was ordained a priest in June 2003, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, CA. I then returned to Stanford University for doctoral work in political science, graduating in 2008. I split my next year between Chile, completing my final phase of Jesuit formation in preparation for my final vows, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. I joined the faculty at Georgetown University in the Fall of 2009.Since arriving in DC, my priestly service happens largely at Georgetown’s Dahlgren Chapel of the Sacred Heart, where I regularly preside at the 7:00pm Sunday Mass and the monthly Spanish Mass. I also preside about once a month at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Gaithersburg, MD. I live as the Jesuit-in-Residence in Kennedy Hall.