Artist. Educator. Activist.

Wally Rudolph is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and equity advocate based in Los Angeles. As a writer, he is the author of the acclaimed literary novels Four Corners and MIGHTY,MIGHTY (Counterpoint/Soft Skull) and served as the 2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica. His screen credits include Sons of Anarchy, Legion, and the award-winning, Bang Bang.

As an educator, Wally develops and teaches decolonized creative writing curricula at both Stanford Continuing Studies and UCLA Extension. He currently teaches Novel I, Novel II, and developed the course curriculum for the Voices Of Color workshop at UCLA, a workshop for underrepresented writers of color 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’s work in cannabis social equity has had a lasting impact. He founded the Working Group Coalition, the nation’s only Social Equity policy advisement organization composed exclusively of Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ cannabis licensees. During his tenure at Meadow software, Wally was the Head of Social Equity Programs & Education creating accessible operational tools and spearheading workforce development programs for communities devastated by systemic racism and the war on drugs. His efforts have influenced local and statewide initiatives with the City of Los Angeles' Department of Cannabis, the Office of Cannabis Management for the State of New York, CalAsian Foundation, Oakland's Success Centers, and the Los Angeles-based nonprofit, 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.