Zachary Roberts is the program manager for the National Fellowship on the Future of Liberal Education. He received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and has taught in Columbia’s Core Curriculum and the English department at Vassar College. His research focuses on American literature, culture, and intellectual history, as well as the history of liberal education. 

Zachary is also the Director of Research and Communications for the Chang Chavkin Center for Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College which works to revitalize colleges and universities by restoring liberal education to the heart of the undergraduate curriculum. He also serves as director of the Teagle Humanities Fellowship, a summer mentorship program for alumni/ae in the Knowledge for Freedom network, and serves on the KFF advisory board. He also teaches in Freedom & Citizenship at Columbia University, a free four-week residential liberal education summer program for New York City high school students, most of whom aim to become the first in their families to attend college.