He taught at Vanguard University of Southern California from 2005-2013, and served in the California state government as a member of the California Student Aid Commission and the Post-Secondary Education Commission. As a public speaker he has discussed topics including civil discourse, elections, and current public policy issues, and has recently published Perfecting the Constitution: The Case for the Article V Amendment Process from Lexington Books. He earned both his M.A. in Public Policy and Ph.D. in Political Science at Claremont Graduate University.