Andre grew up in Twinsburg, Ohio. In high school, he took three years of a journalism/video production class, as well as a motion graphics class specializing in Adobe After Effects. In the summer of 2019, he attended the National Student Leadership Conference at the American University in Washington, D.C. where he was introduced to the filmmaking process. This experience helped him grow as a person and provided the creative freedom he wanted. Now, as a part of the class of 2024 at OU, he hopes to make a career out of the wonderful process that is filmmaking.