Arti Walker-Peddakotla

Arti Walker-Peddakotla (she/they) is a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School, movement lawyer and community organizer, US Army veteran, and former Oak Park Village Trustee. Arti’s scholarship and research focuses on the intersection of tech and privacy law, state and local government law, and abolition and movement law, and explores the relationship between municipal and state governments and private surveillance companies. Arti currently serves as Board Chair of AboutFace: Veterans Against the War, is an advisory board member of Lucy Parsons Labs, is co-chair of the Public Safety Steering Committee for Local Progress, and is cofounder of the abolitionist community organizing group Freedom to Thrive Oak Park. Arti has a J.D., M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology, and a B.S. in Biology. Arti’s writing has been featured in the Law and Political Economy Blog, New York Times, Common Dreams, and Newsweek.