Robert joined The Catholic University of America in July 2014 to serve as Education Abroad Advisor for the Office of Global Strategies. His appointment as Director began in July 2021. He provides support to students and faculty in addition to program management. Robert is originally from Connecticut, having also lived in North Carolina and Ohio. He participated in a spring break study abroad program in France and a summer abroad program in Costa Rica while attending Gardner-Webb University as an undergraduate majoring in English Composition. Robert also lived and worked in Bogotá, Colombia as an ESL teacher before eventually pursuing a master's degree in Higher Education Administration at Kent State University.