Campus Directory

Pronouns he/him/his

Division Student Affairs and Success

Department/College/Unit Center for Advocacy, Resources & Empowerment (CARE)

Title Prevention Education Coordinator

Affiliation Staff

Primary Office Location Hahn Student Services
CARE

Mail Stop Student Health Center

Biography, Education and Training

In his role as Prevention Education Coordinator, Zack supports the development and facilitation of violence prevention programming, provides mentorship and supervision to CARE's peer educators, and collaborates to continually engage the UCSC campus in creating a community free from sexual and interpersonal violence. He has an interest in primary prevention strategies for creating safer communities and values meeting audiences where they are at through culturally-relevant, intersectionality-informed programming.

Prior to joining CARE, Zack was a program coordinator with a national nonprofit focused on creating safe, healthy, equitable communities through upstream public health strategies. In this role, he supported several projects in the organization's safety and wellbeing portfolio of work with audiences and grantees across California and the US. Prior to nonprofit work, Zack was a compliance liaison with an agency that worked to place nurses and other clinicians in facilities across the country. Zack earned a B.S. in Health Psychology from UC San Diego and a Master of Public Health in Community Health Education from San Francisco State University. In his free time, Zack enjoys gardening, video games, playing with his dogs, and exploring new places around Santa Cruz and the Bay with his partner.