 Shurberg was born March 27, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut.In 1981, after graduating from the Kingswood-Oxford School, he moved to Washington D.C. to attend Georgetown University.After graduating from Georgetown in 1985 with a degree in International Politics, Shurberg worked as a paralegal for several years before matriculating to the Washington College of Law at American University.