Zachary Mace graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 with a BS in Neuroscience. He received his MA in Bioethics in 2015 after defending his thesis entitled The Permissibility of Suicide in Light of the Right to Refuse Treatment. He has worked as a neurotechnologist providing intra-operative monitoring services for patients in hospitals throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. He also taught Ethics & Aging in the University of Pittsburgh's Gerontology Certificate Program and taught bioethics at West Liberty College.