Zack leads Just Impact’s partnership development initiatives, and provides ongoing support and solutions to our network of non-profit team leaders, donors and partners. Just Impact is the only expert-led intermediary fund dedicated to ending mass incarceration in the US. Zack brings considerable experience in sourcing, conducting diligence and fundraising for early-stage venture capital investments, along with strong technical knowledge of the criminal justice system, which he developed handling over 1,000 criminal cases as a public defender. Before joining Just Impact, Zack spent five years with Bail Capital, a cannabis and psychedelic medicine-focused venture capital firm, where he was a founding member and manager. He is also a co-founder of Besito, a Los Angeles-based company making premium cannabis products. Previously, Zack served for more than 4 years as a public defender in New Orleans. Most recently, Zack helped create and launch a fellowship program that brought AM top 100 law firm, BCLP, in partnership with the non-profit Midwest Innocence Project, which works to free innocent people serving lengthy sentences throughout the Midwest. Zack was the inaugural BCLP-MIP Fellow, and gained experience both as a corporate structuring and M&A deal lawyer as well as working on complex petitions to free people from prison. He lives in St. Louis, and is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School.
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Asia Center
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Center for Financial Markets
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Center for the Future of Aging
Advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through high-impact policies, research, convenings, and multisector partnerships.
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Center for Regional Economics and California Center
Analyzes the dynamics that drive job creation and promote industry expansion
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Center for Strategic Philanthropy
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FasterCures
Clears roadblocks that prevent medical breakthroughs from reaching patients sooner
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Global Market Development
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Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream
Anyone with a dream should have the opportunity to make it come true—through determination and an economic system that works for all
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