Profile
Zachary graduated from Columbia College in May 2021 with a bachelor's degree in History and African American Studies. His coursework focused on American legal history, particularly the constitutional history of slavery and abolition. His senior honors thesis investigated abolitionist constitutional theory and legal practice in antebellum New York, and he worked as a research assistant for Prof. Katherine Franke at Columbia Law School in conjunction with the Columbia Law School and Slavery Project. In addition to serving on the Student Advisory Board of the Holder Initiative, Zachary was the founder and outreach director of Columbia Votes, and was selected as a Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC).
Currently, Zachary is a Legal Assistant in the Criminal Justice Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In this role, Zachary supports a team of attorneys and legal fellows dedicated to challenging mass incarceration, police brutality, the criminalization of poverty, and the racial disparities that pervade the criminal legal system. He is originally from Brooklyn, New York.