I grew up among the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Lexington, Virginia where my father worked as a law professor at Washington and Lee University. I spent my childhood as a sounding board for his law school exam hypotheticals and lived in several countries while on sabbatical including Australia, Spain, England, and Ireland among others. It was partially through his experiences that I, too, became inspired to pursue a career in academia.

I attended Oberlin College where I also played varsity soccer and met my second love, neuroscience. While in school, I conducted research on early onset Alzheimer’s disease and after graduating, spent a year studying circadian rhythms at a lab in Argentina. It was during this time that I also became a scuba instructor which later informed my nickname of “Scuba” in law school.

To unite my interests, I joined Vanderbilt’s joint Law and Neuroscience JD/PhD program in 2013 and completed a dissertation examining assumptions behind the Present Sense Impression. After graduation in 2020, I clerked for the Honorable Adalberto Jordan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Currently, I work as an associate with the boutique law firm of Gelber, Schachter, & Greenberg P.A. in Miami, FL where I live with my wife, Taylor, and dog, Heidi.

In addition to my practice and scholarship, discussed in depth on other pages, I scuba dive whenever I can, continue to play soccer, have completed an Ironman, and dabble in my home wood shop.