Ryan has a bachelor’s in linguistics from New York University and a law degree from the University of California, Irvine School of Law. As an AmeriCorps volunteer, he was a project manager for Habitat for Humanity, renovating mobile homes for low-income families. He spent a year as a live-in volunteer at a Benedictine monastery in Kansas before moving to the Jesuits West Discernment House in Seattle, where he volunteered at St. Joseph Parish and Seattle Nativity School. Ryan likes tinkering with small electronics and cooking.
