After teaching for several years in New York City, he finished his graduate studies in TESOL and moved to Guatemala in September of 2011. Soon thereafter, Andrew moved to San Marcos La Laguna, on the shores of the famous Lake Atitlán. Up to that point, his work had been exclusively in child-care and language education in public schools, and Andrew jumped at the chance to try his hand at different kinds of work including bartending, renovating a hotel and offering private language classes to foreigners looking to connect with the Mayan indigenous in San Marcos. After a year of working in these different fields, he heard about a daily lunch program that would have to close for lack of funding and administration, and Andrew committed to take over as director so that Konojel would be able to remain open.