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I am excited and grateful to be starting my first year of teaching at Bishop Montgomery. This is my second year teaching as a full-time profession and my first as a high school teacher; my previous year was spent teaching middle school religion and history at Mary Star of the Sea Elementary in San Pedro. 

I grew up locally in Redondo Beach and attended Loyola High School in downtown Los Angeles; there I played football and golf and was active in various clubs on campus. By the end of my high school career I was drawn towards a potential vocation to the Catholic priesthood, so I entered a minor seminary program at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. I loved my time studying in Steubenville and earned my bachelors there in Philosophy and Theology. After a year serving as a missionary in a Catholic organization called The Culture Project in Toledo, Ohio, I still was hoping to become a priest, so I came back to California and entered the Order of Preachers  (Dominicans) in San Francisco, California. My time in the Dominicans wound up being rather brief; I left before making first vows in the winter of 2022, at which point I moved back to Southern California. 

Thus, between the ages of 17-23, I was of the mentality of becoming a priest and spent quite a bit of time in seminary formation. Of the various lasting impacts this time left on me, none has been greater than how it instilled in me a great passion for studying Sacred Scripture. This love is really what drives me to teach Theology at Bishop Montgomery; I hope to engage the students with the richness of the biblical texts read in light of the Church’s tradition of interpretation as well as the findings of modern scholarly research.

I take my vocation with great seriousness and hope my students will come away with a knowledge of the Word of God, both as it is written on the page and, even more importantly, in the incarnate person of Jesus Christ.