Zachary is a first-year graduate student researching military history under the advisory of Dr. Robert Gudmestad and a Dan Tyler Graduate Editorial Fellow with the Western Historical Quarterly.

Zachary earned his B.A. in Political Science in 2023 from the University of Colorado Boulder, and worked as the Program Coordinator of the University of Colorado Boulder Applied History Initiative from 2023 to 2025. He is a veteran of the United States Army and the Afghan-American War, and his research focuses on the 21st century Global War on Terror. An essay written by Zachary about interpreters during the GWOT, "Keeping Faith: Interpreters in the Global War on Terror" will be published as a chapter in the upcoming book Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond (Edited by Andrew Offenburger and Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Nebraska Press 2025).