Zach has served as the executive director of the Northfield Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) for the past 15 years. During the time, the organization has helped lead communitywide initiatives to close academic disparity gaps and authentic youth voice. For this work, HCI was named a 2017 winner of the Bush Prize for Community Innovation. Pruitt earned his BA from Carleton College and his master’s from the University of Chicago. He has two children.