About me
Arti Walker-Peddakotla (she/they) is a William H. Hastie Fellow at University of Wisconsin Law, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow, and former Oak Park Village Trustee. As a local elected official, and cofounder of community organizing group Freedom to Thrive Oak Park, Arti organized abolitionist efforts in Oak Park, IL to fight against the use of carceral technology, defund the police, and remove police from schools. As a law student at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law Arti co-created the LAW156: Abolition and Movement Lawyering course. Arti serves as Board Chair of AboutFace: Veterans Against the War, is an advisory board member of Lucy Parsons Labs, serves on the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance C4 board, and serves on the Public Safety Steering Committee for Local Progress, where she previously was a board member.
