I was born in Goshen, IN, and moved to Kentucky just before I turned 7. I grew up in northern KY and was homeschooled for most of my education. I was raised in a devout Christian family and was in a Baptist church. I was very involved in the AWANA program and then in my youth group. I grew up spending weeks of camp at Youth Haven Bible Camp in Beattyville, KY, and I have since come back many times to serve there at teen, grade school, and handicapped weeks. During my freshman year of high school I was faced with something of an intellectual crisis at the realization that most people my age were going to fall away from their faith for one reason or another. I looked around at my youth group and didn't feel challenged by anything; it all felt surface-level, and I knew that what I was getting in church was not going to cut it if I was going to keep my faith. So, I took things into my own hands and began a relentless search for the knowledge of God. I got to where I just had to know that Christianity is true, and what evidence there is for it. After all, I cannot commit myself to a falsehood. Jesus commands us to give up everything to follow him, and that is foolish if Christianity is not true. That drive for truth and knowledge has led me all over, and it is a big part of why math was so appealing to me. My grandpa was a retired math teacher, and so for my math (as I was homeschooled) in high school we got together a few times a week and did math for a few hours. He pushed me and refused to accept anything less than my best. He demanded excellence from me in studying mathematics, and repeatedly made clear to me how much more important it is to commit myself to Jesus. If I must be excellent in math, then how much more excellence does God ask of me in my walk with him? My faith was supposed to be the most important thing about me, and so I pursued truth in theology & apologetics just as hard as I did in mathematics. I have learned that "showing your work" in mathematics is really just defending your answer to a question; in the same way, my answer to questions about my faith can be defended, and that is apologetics. I finished my bachelor's in Math at Indiana University-South Bend in 2021. While I was there, I was a founding member of the Ratio Christi club there. Ratio Christi is an apologetics organization that focuses on the college campus. My first year after graduating, I did an internship with the ministry on Grand Valley State's campus. It was during that year that I knew I had to give myself to this ministry of bringing reasons for the truth of the Gospel to the spiritually dark college campuses. If you can take back the college campus for Christ, you can take back the culture for Christ. I moved back to northern KY in late 2022 and began my master's degree in math at the University of Cincinnati in spring 2023. While in the master's program I helped start a Ratio Christi chapter at UC, and I have since stayed on and officially joined Ratio Christi as a missionary apologist on the campus. I graduated with my master's degree in December 2024 and am now an adjunct professor in mathematics at the University of Cincinnati on the side being an apologist and evangelist here.