Sean was born and raised in San Jose, California. Following his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Sean learned to ride a motorbike and taught first-year university students at Atma Jaya University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia through a Princeton in Asia fellowship in 2015. He then moved to Jakarta, where he interned with the U.N. Information Centre and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees over two consecutive summers. As a Yale graduate student, Sean served as diversity and inclusion chair of the Yale Graduate and Professional School Senate and supported reforms to addressing racial policing/harassment on campus. In 2018, he moved to Hong Kong on a Yale-China internship to complete HIV research on ethnic minorities with the Red Ribbon Centre of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government Department of Health. Sean remained in Asia to pursue a career in the education sector and to engage in human rights work, including volunteering with Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps. In 2022, Sean worked in the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein as a Legislative Fellow. As a Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellow, Sean is preparing to enter the Foreign Service, a career in which he hopes to promote democracy and LGBTQ+ rights abroad. In his spare time, he enjoys reading about politics, learning new languages, and spending time with his partner and dog.