Ehsan will deliver an engaging presentation on entrepreneurship through a social-impact lens, exploring how innovative ideas and sustainable business strategies can address pressing social challenges. He will share practical insights on identifying community needs, developing mission-driven solutions, and building ventures that generate both financial value and meaningful, long-term impact.

Ehsan Zaffar is a civil rights lawyer, social entrepreneur, and one of the country’s leading voices on building practical, market-driven solutions to inequality. Based in Long Beach, California, he brings nearly two decades of experience spanning federal government, academia, and community-based innovation to the Commission on the State of Hate.

Zaffar is the Founding Executive Director of The Difference Engine at Arizona State University, a first-of-its-kind venture studio headquartered in Downtown Los Angeles that treats communities as entrepreneurs, not problems to be solved.