Tapia was born December 3, 1984. Tapia has been involved in aspects of media his whole life and has written for The Arizona Republic, The East Valley/Scottsdale Tribune, The Wrangler News (Tempe, AZ). Tapia has since dabbled in filmmaking and has shot and produced several professional pieces. His clients include: Kelly Loudenberg Productions (The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and Hulu.com) and Catholic Charities. Tapia is involved in the non-profit organization Imaginations Inc. He has also done freelance graphic design and marketing.

Tapia is a wanna be academic and a self-proclaimed self-loathing hipster. Tapia enjoys loading film on his father's 35mm still camera and the smell of the desert after a torrential downpour. He dislikes when people uninvitedly shove bites of food in his face and when people try to have a conversation through him when he's on the phone with someone else. He can tolerate a thunderous train in the wee hours of the morning that rattle his apartment and has impeccable handwriting.