 Zuckerman attended the Chadwick School in Los Angeles County, California, and graduated from Reed College with a degree in biology in 2003.As a student at Reed, Zuckerman served on the editorial board of the Reed College "Quest", a student-run newspaper.In March 2002 he wrote an opinion piece in "The Oregonian" ("The drug Olympics") condemning competitive use of drugs like gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, or GHB, at the school.