In addition to earning his doctoral degree (Business Administration) from Case Western Reserve University, he currently holds eight other graduate degrees: Brown University (Development Studies where his thesis advisors include: anthropologist Kay Warren, sociologist Paget Henry, and economist Louis Putterman), Columbia University (Public Policy/Public Administration), Dartmouth College (Cultural Studies where his thesis advisors include: Native American legal scholar Bruce Duthu, Native American historian Colin Calloway, and distinguished Americanist Donald Pease), Middlebury College (English), Northwestern University (Management & Organizations), University of Pennsylvania (Law), University of Pennsylvania (Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies),  and Yale University (Religion). He has completed extensive graduate coursework at both The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice of Dartmouth College (Public Health) and at Case Western Reserve University (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine). His undergraduate degree in Political Science and Psychology (as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, and the National Golden Key Society) is from the University of Houston, magna cum laude.