The Roosevelt Institution

Zach Marks

School: Yale

Member of:
RI at Yale Alumni
Expo Cocktail Reception
Core Chapters and Staff
Center on Education
Education Policy Coordination
Reducing our dependence on foreign, harmful, and unsustainable energy
Roosevelt Policy Expo 2006
Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education
Higher Education Conference Group
Making Democracy Work
National Policy Coordination Staff
Rebuilding the Criminal Justice System
Responsible Community Development
Steering Committee 2006-07
Building an America that Works for Working Families

Contact info:

Login Email:	zachary.marks(AT)yale.edu
Contact Email:	zachary.marks(AT)yale.edu
Permanent Email:	zachary.marks(AT)yale.edu

Policy interests: Criminal justice, Diversity, race, and opportunity, Economic policy, Education, Energy, Fair and clean politics, Government reform, Nonprofits and philanthropy, Poverty and social justice, Responsible business practices, Social policy, The courts, The media, Urban policy

Zach Marks, born and raised in Philadelphia where he attended Central High School, is a junior at Yale University. He is majoring in Ethics, Politics, and Economics with an Urban Studies concentration.

Zach served as co-director of “A Seat at the Table,” a conference which brought hundreds of students, policymakers, and university administrators from across the country to Yale to discuss how to make college more accessible and more affordable. As national coordinator of the Roosevelt Challenge: Increase Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education Zach is helped Roosevelt fellows across the country develop policy with the end goal: make the dream of a college education a reality for all students, regardless of what they put on their financial aid application.

In addition to working for the Roosevelt Institution, Zach serves as secretary of the Yale College Council, Yale’s student government, where he works on issues ranging from University financial aid reform to economic development in New Haven. He works in Yale's Office of Undergraduate Admissions where he administers the Student Ambassador program which reaches out to low-income high school students to help them navigate the admissions process. He also writes a food column for the Yale Daily News which has been covered in The New York Times and on National Public Radio's Here & Now, and enjoys competing in triathlons.