Ehsan Zaffar
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Ehsan Zaffar is an educator, civil rights lawyer and founder of The Difference Engine, ASU's Center on the Future of Equality. As ASU’s “Chief Difference Engineer” Ehsan works with some of the brightest students and thoughtful faculty and staff in the country to craft real-world solutions to some of our nation’s most daunting problems.
Prior to his work at Arizona State University, he served as a Senior Advisor on Civil Rights at the United States Department of Homeland Security. He is the founder of the Los Angeles Mobile Legal Aid Clinic (LAMLAC) which helped pioneer the delivery of mobile legal care to vulnerable populations in California and across the nation. He serves on the board of ACLU California, as well as Team Rubicon, the country's pre-eminent disaster relief organization and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Pacific Council on International Policy and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Learn more about Ehsan's work and listen to UnfairNation, his podcast on inequality.
- Understanding Homeland Security, Routledge; 1st edition (October 31, 2019).
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JUS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| LAW 791 | Seminar |
| JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JUS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 425 | Race, Gender, and Justice |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| HON 493 | Honors Thesis |
| HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 425 | Race, Gender, and Justice |
| HON 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| HON 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 494 | Special Topics |
| SST 494 | Special Topics |
| POS 494 | Special Topics |
- U.S. State Department's Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy
- Secretary's Award for Excellence in Service.
Law and Public Policy, Routledge Press, 2019.
- Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations
- Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
- Distinguished Non-Resident Scholar at the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender
- Visiting Fellow on (In)Equality at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy.
- Board Member, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) California
- Board of Advisors, Team Rubicon
- Columnist, U.S. News & World Report
- Aspen Institute’s Executive Leadership (Class of 2018)