Zack has taken on a number of professional roles related to the representation of women and other under-represented groups in philosophy.
She completed her doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University in 1970, writing a dissertation on the epistemology of C. I. Lewis under Sidney Morgenbesser.
[3] She accepted an appointment as an affiliated member in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Albany in 1993, and was promoted to associate professor of philosophy in 1998.
[5][6] In 2021, she was invited to give the John Dewey Lecture at the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, entitled "Philosophy and Me".
[8] Zack also goes to great lengths to highlight the differences in how "disasters" are portrayed depending on the political, racial, and socio-economic class to which they occur.