Previously he was the staff attorney at the not-for-profit Single Stop. He received a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2015 where he was the president of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy organization and the secretary of the Labor and Employment Law Association. He is a volunteer with the New York City Bar Association in the Monday Night Law program. He received a B.A. in Literature from Ramapo College of New Jersey in 2011.