Manny is an Arizona native, and grew up on the border in Nogales, AZ. He completed an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at Biola University, and subsequently spent two years at the Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University where he completed an M.A. in Bioethics.  He has been teaching philosophy, theology and bioethics in Phoenix since 2012 at several different colleges and universities, including GCU, before starting at GCU as a full-time faculty member in 2015. Currently, he is writing towards a PhD. In the area of philosophy of science and bioethics at the Free University of Amsterdam. He resides with his wife Kendra and son Moses in Glendale, AZ.