Phillip earned a BA in political science and Asian studies from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in Honolulu. He completed his First Studies at Fordham University in New York and performed Regency as a teacher of theology at Jesuit High School in Carmichael, CA. Since entering the Society, he has worked as an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in Sacramento and gone on to further studies. He completed the Master’s program in Sacred Music at the University of Notre Dame in 2017 and currently he is a doctoral student in catechetics at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.