Andrew’s father served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 20 years. Needless to say, he moved around quite a bit. Andrew settled down in The Northern Virginia area toward his latter school years. Having attended three different high schools, Andrew still found a way to start his lifelong journey of service to others. Andrew began volunteer tutoring his sophomore year of high school and to date has not stopped.

 

While attending Wheeling Jesuit University (WJU) on an athletic scholarship then going on to pursue his graduate degree at West Virginia University on an academic scholarship, Andrew continued his service to the community. While at WJU, Andrew volunteered at an at-risk youth detention center with the Mother Jones house, which was WJU’s community service and outreach program. While at WVU, he went on to help tutor undergraduates in a variety of courses. Once he obtained his Masters of Science degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, he started his post graduate life in Washington, PA.

 

For four years, Andrew practiced as a psychotherapist for a behavioral health center in a lower social economic community. Within those four years, the last three, he worked his way up to the head clinician for the Sexual Offender treatment and Anger Management programs. While in Washington, PA, he again found time to give to the surrounding community through volunteer coaching for local 17 and under girls and boys traveling basketball teams. As is the only consistent thing in his life, he would uproot himself and move again.

 

Life presented him with an opportunity to serve his country and he answered the call. Andrew was hired on with the Department of Homeland Security in 2010. This position meant he would have to move back to northern Virginia, which is where his family resided. He welcomed the homecoming. During his tenure in the DMV, he never stopped serving. Two separate service trips to San Salvador, El Salvador. While there, through brute effort and time he helped dig ditches for pipes to deliver fresh water to the rural community. He teamed with locals to build new homes for the less fortunate and lastly, he completed home visits with local nurses to patients who had no access to hospitals or care facilities. To date, he considers these service trips not only eye opening, but life changing.

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​After twelve amazing years it was time to move again. During his time in Virginia, Andrew started successful real estate investment and trucking businesses. He has focused on employing persons from under-represented and underprivileged communities. Also, during this time there, in 2017, he joined the amazing L.E.A.P. Board. Through this amazing non-profit organization is how he now consistently assuages his appetite for community service. Since 2022, Andrew now lives in Los Angeles, CA. His passion for giving back and serving the community, wherever he resides, is still burning strong.