Fr. Norbert is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph, which serves the eastern part of the US. He is from the Seattle area and went to Harvard for college, graduating in 2010. In 2012 he entered the Dominican novitiate in Cincinnati, and then did his training for the priesthood in Washington, D.C. He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Robert Barron in 2019 and has been working in Ohio since 2020.