Zach Maurin

Zach Maurin's passion for national service comes from his life-changing year of national service with a leading AmeriCorps program, City Year. He then moved to Washington, DC and saw AmeriCorps funding continue to get
cut. Recognizing that there was no organization focused on uniting the vast grassroots support for national service into a powerful movement, Zach and three others founded ServeNext. ServeNext and ServiceNation merged in 2012. Under Zach’s leadership, ServeNext launched and maintained the first team of field organizers in the history of national service, secured major commitments to expand national service from nine presidential candidates in 2008 (which helped lay the critical groundwork for the Serve America Act), and then helped pass the bipartisan bill – the biggest service legislation in three generations. Today, ServiceNation is a grassroots movement of over 140,000 members, a coalition of 400 organizations, and has field operations in six states. Zach has received City Year’s Comcast Leadership
Award, was a finalist for an Echoing Green Fellowship, a White House Champion of Change, and named one of the 40 Under 40 in 2010 by New Leaders Council.

For his work advancing national service, Zach has been featured on MSNBC, CNN, Buzzfeed, Cato Unbound, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and The Daily Beast.

He graduated from George Washington University in 2007 with a degree in English. Proudly from Pittsburgh, he’s an irrationally big Penguins fan and would do anything to meet Larry David.

Follow him on Twitter @zmaurin.