A life-long resident of Hamburg, Rybczynski is a graduate of St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from Mercyhurst College in Erie Pennsylvania. His professional background is in government affairs, business development, public relations and marketing, first as a senior legislative aide with the Erie County Legislature, then as executive director of the Buffalo Building Trades Council - where his main focus was to bring funding to the Western New York Region for construction projects and to ensure local women and men were employed on those projects - and then as government affairs liaison at the Erie County Medical Center. Recently, Rybczynski started his own governmental consulting firm and has further branched out into the field of renewable energy with a local consulting and procurement firm.