Kenneth Reyes hails from Philadelphia. Born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father in Caguas, Puerto Rico, Reyes and his family migrated to Camden, New Jersey when he was five. He attended Dartmouth College for his undergraduate studies and later obtained his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Reyes has extensive experience working as a Congressional staffer in the offices of Senator Hillary Clinton and Congresswoman Grace Napolitano. He also worked for the New America Alliance, a national nonprofit that advocates increasing diversity in the financial services industry and corporate America. He currently works as an assistant at Creative Artists Agency.