About Us

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.

Meet Our Team

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Ami Zou

Fundraising

Ami started a climate tech community and runs hackathons in SF

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Asako Hayase

Operations

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

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Cancy Han

Partnerships

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Cher Hu

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.

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Ghalia Farzat

Executive Director

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

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James Church

Marketing

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

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John Church

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.

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Marzieh Nabi

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.

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Moira Feng

Partnerships

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

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Sepideh Yazdi

Fundraising