TA received a bachelor’s in human physiology from San Francisco State University. He has been a longtime volunteer in various youth ministries throughout San Jose. He was in the first cohort of the Jesuit discernment house in Seattle where he coached sixth grade boys basketball at Seattle Nativity School and served food in the St. Joseph School’s kitchen. TA’s favorite saint is St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, the holy porter, because he saw Christ in each person that walked through the doors.