He learned early how quickly a life can change.
Marczell was born in Los Angeles in 1998 and grew up in a prosperous Southern California family. Then the 2008 crash hit, and almost overnight his family lost its position.
He was still a boy, and he watched it happen. He carried what it taught him into William Howard Taft High School, where he became an all-star athlete and set his sights on becoming a medical doctor.






