Robert holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Asian Studies and Latin American studies, and pursued doctoral work at Stanford University in religious studies, with a specialization in modern and contemporary Jewish thought. In 1999, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he studied at the Marshall Meyer Latin American Rabbinical Seminary and conducted research on religious and cultural identity within the Argentinian Jewish community. Over nearly two decades, Robert has taught students throughout the US, Latin America, and China as a college instructor, classroom teacher, and tutor.