Sujatha Baliga

sujatha baliga is an American attorney and restorative justice practitioner who won the MacArthur [Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship] in 2019.

Biography

baliga was born and raised in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. baliga attended Harvard University and the University of [Pennsylvania Law School].
She is the director of the Restorative Justice Project at Impact Justice in Oakland, California. For her work there she was awarded a 2019 MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
She was one of two List of [people from Oakland, California|Oaklanders] awarded the grant in 2019, the other being Walter Hood.
She prefers that her name be uncapitalized.