Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1955, Tom Sherman is a Jesuit priest who received his MDiv at Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, MA in 1987, his Licentiate in Spiritual Theology at the Gregorain University in Rome in 2009 and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1999. Tom taught philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul Korea for six years and was a tenured professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he taught from 2000-2007. In addition to working and teaching in Harare Zimbabwe, Tom has been a professor in philosophy and spirituality at the Gregorian University since 2017.