Mark was accepted to the Masters of Social Welfare Program here at UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare where he will be studying Health and Wellness Throughout the Adult Life Span. His goal is to become a Social Worker for the County of Alameda and work on (rehabilitating) youth rehabilitation and providing alternatives to incarceration. He graduated with his bachelor's degree in anthropology from UC Berkeley where he also was a member of the Berkeley Underground Scholars program, developing the prison-to-university pipeline.