Myles grew up on a small farm in central New Hampshire.  His family raises flowers, and Myles and his siblings trained oxen and managed a cattle herd.  He later started working with draft horses and was employed by a local farm/zoo driving horses for hayrides and working with exotic wildlife.  Myles plays the Scottish Highland Pipes and performs with a Celtic band.

Myles was home schooled from third grade through high school, and completed his undergraduate education at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.  He was a political science major with philosophy and history minors, and wrote a senior honors thesis on judicial reconstruction after genocide, focusing on Bosnia-Herzegovina and Rwanda. In 2005, Myles was selected as a Harry S. Truman Scholar, a national award to support graduate education leading to a career in public service.  In 2007 he received a Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission Scholarship, which led to an LL.M. International Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and an MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice at Oxford University, England. Myles aspires to become a prosecutor and has a longstanding interest in international law and development issues.  Myles was interning with the Prosecutor General of Rwanda in Kigali when he met Antoine, Sylvestre, Espoir, and Innocent through his volunteer work with street children.

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