Thomas is a queer Egyptologist, theater artist, and podcast host.

They are a part of the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities student at the University of Chicago, where they are on the Two-year Language Option track. Their Masters Thesis, “Reanalysis of Ptahhotep Maxim 32: Homosexuality, Non-Mutuality, and Queer Egyptologies” (which won the MAPH Intrepid Thesis Award), looked at histories of translating a particular passage in The Instructions of Ptahhotep and the heterosexist biases behind those translations, and proposed a new translation and interpretation of the passage. His area of interest lies in uncovering the histories of non-elite, disabled, and queer people in ancient Egypt, as well as the histories of non-elite reception of official/elite discourses. Thomas also has an interest in the pedagogy of the languages of ancient Egypt, with an eye towards how best to integrate modern language pedagogical techniques with ancient languages. They also have a passion for museum work and how to best, and most inclusively, utilize museum collections for education and for exploring typically ignored aspects of the past.

Prior to UChicago, Thomas attended Rutgers University - New Brunswick, where he studied Religion, Theater Arts, and Archaeology. They received departmental honors in both Religion and Theater Arts. His primary academic interest was the culture of ancient west Asia, with a particular focus on the archaeology and literature of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant. As part of the departmental honors in Religion, they completed a thesis project, entitled Embracing Companions and Comrades: An Exploration of "Queer" Interactions in Ancient Judah, Egypt, and the Mesopotamian Milieu, which sought to reanalyze and recontextualize traditional understandings of ancient west Asian archaeological and literary data, with a specific lens of queered reinterpretation.

Thomas spent over five years as a homeschooler/unschooler in New York City. He has been stage managing professionally since he was fifteen years old, and doing lighting design professionally since he was seventeen years old. Much of this work has been with The Firebird Project and Theater of the Apes, as well as Cabaret Theatre at Rutgers University.

They are currently the Tale Keeper for the whimsical fantasy Actual Play TTRPG Podcast, Tales from Grevelon, which is episodic and family friendly.