Artist. Educator. Activist.

Wally Rudolph is a multi-disciplinary artist and diversity & equity activist across industries in Los Angeles. As a writer, he is the author of the literary novels, Four Corners and MIGHTY,MIGHTY (Counterpoint/Soft Skull) and was the 2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, California. As an actor, he’s appeared on numerous TV programs & feature films including Sons of Anarchy, Legion, and the award-winning, Bang Bang.

As an educator, he develops and teaches de-colonized writing curriculum at UCLA Extension Programs. He currently teaches Novel I, Novel II, and developed the course curriculum for the new Voices Of Color workshop, a workshop for all underrepresented writers of color across genres that takes a process-driven approach to creating work that accurately depicts the writer’s respective communities’ values in their own words.

As an activist, Wally is the founder of the Working Group Coalition, the only national cannabis Social Equity policy advisement organization solely made up of current and in-process Black, Brown, & LGBTQ+ Social Equity Applicants and Owners. He is also leads cannabis Social Equity Programs and Education for Meadow Software where he creates and implements access driven educational operations programs and compliance curriculum for individuals and communities that were destroyed by decades of racist drug policy and the accompanying multi-generational tragedy of mass incarceration.

He has created and continues to grow and execute statewide social equity programs with Sacramento’s CalAsian Foundation, Oakland non-profit Success Centers, and locally and nationally with the Los Angeles-based non-profit This is Our Dream. Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrants and raised in Texas, he’s traveled and lived throughout North America, but now he and his son, Redd, call The City of Angels home.