Zeeshan holds an M.A. in International Relations from the City University of NY (CUNY), Graduate Center. He is a Board Member for Americans for Informed Democracy. Zeeshan has been active in Student Government in both graduate school and at Queens College, where he was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to be elected Vice President in the 35 years of student government history. While at Queens College, Zeeshan also founded the South Asian Students Association (SASA), whose aim is to promote South Asian culture through panel discussions, film screenings and other cultural events. He was the Secretary for a political party called United People and the Society of Success and Leadership, and a delegate to the University Student Senate (the CUNY student government) where he sat on the Committee for Academic Policies along with the CUNY Chanceller and made decisions affecting the tens of thousands of CUNY students. Zeeshan was also the youngest member of the Steering Committee for the Second Annual South Asian Conference organized by the Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY, which brought together scholars, students and professionals from all over the country.

Zeeshan has also done voice-over work and hosted a TV show which introduced New York City to South Asian audiences all over the world, and currently writes a column for a Pakistani newspaper detailing Pakistani-American life in New York (among other things) to a Pakistani audience. His work has been published in Q-News (Britain), The World Scholar (New York), Pakistan Post (New York) and The Nation (Pakistan). His blog can be found at http://zeeshansuhail.blogspot.com/

In his spare time, Zeeshan volunteers for the United Nations Association, the Foreign Policy Association, and has received advanced leadership certifications from the Institute of Student Leadership at Paper Clip Communications as well as the National Conference on Student Leadership.