Chas Firestone East is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University who studies the philosophy and theology of Dante and Aquinas. Chas is a relatively recent convert to Catholicism and is very excited to meet and learn from the many diverse Catholic communities across the United States on the Serra Route while following Christ to Indianapolis. Chas comes from Virginia and has lived and studied in New Jersey, New York, Oxford, Paris, Venice, Naples, and Florence.
