Pavlo Demkiv received his undergraduate degree from La Salle University in 2013, and has been involved in social services ever since. In 2015 he began volunteering at Depaul House—a transitional housing facility for men in Philadelphia—and quickly became a full time employee as a Residential Aide. In 2017 he began working with at-risk youth at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health before joining PAAL in 2019 as an Assistant Behavior Analyst.