 Yeghiayan also served as Secretary for the United States Presidential Commission on Volunteerism.In 1975, Yeghiayan testified before the United States Congress Helsinki Commission and in 1979, he was commissioned by the American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy, to write a position paper on the Horn of Africa, leading Yeghiayan to serve as consultant on the topic of starvation in Africa.Following his career in Washington D.C., Yeghiayan opened his own legal practice in California.