Hack for Social Impact is a tech non-profit organization dedicated to solving real-world challenges by connecting engineers and data scientists with non-profits, NGOs, and civic organizations. We specialize in curating high-impact problem statements and fostering post-hackathon collaboration to ensure projects achieve real-world implementation.

Operations
Asako is a community ambassador at Daytona, where she organizes events, builds partnerships, and drives growth in the developer community.

Founder/Advisor
Cher is deeply committed to fostering the intersection of social justice and the technology. From social work at the New Orleans Public Defenders and organizing in criminal justice, to now working in tech and bridging technology for traditionally underserved areas and users, she channels her experiences too encouraging more people to leverage their skills and insights for impactful missions.

Executive Director
Ghalia is a technical product manager who has been volunteering with nonprofits of all sizes for the last 15 years

Marketing
James is cofounder at MilestoneX where he works on student progress tracking and reporting

Marketing
John is a co-founder at MilestoneX where he works on monitoring and evaluation software and grant writing software for charitable organizations and special education providers.

Operations
Marzieh Nabi is the co-founder and CEO of PaxAI (LLM + logic/symbolic AI). She holds a PhD in Distributed Space Systems and an M.Sc. in Mathematics and is a former ML/AI research scientist at Xerox PARC. After completing business training at Stanford, she transitioned into Director of Business Strategy at PARC (commercializing AI technologies) and Senior Technical Product Manager at Automation Anywhere, eBay, and Amazon. She also initiated the System 2 Legal Reasoning project at Stanford’s CodeX, applying advanced AI reasoning to legal informatics. Her work spans big data, AI, and product innovation.

Partnerships
Moira builds automation and design flows for next-gen chips at Lightmatter, and loves bringing tech to life to solve real-world problems