James is a Los Angeles native with a bachelor degree from the University of San Francisco in physics and a masters degree from University of Massachusetts Amherst in physics. James’ specific interest is in astrophysics and he studied solar neutrinos in graduate school. He has taught calculus and physics at Loomis Chaffee in Windsor, CT and is currently a physics and engineering teacher at The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA. On the side he makes hip hop music and plays chess.