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Ajwang Rading

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Ajwang Rading
Lecturer in Law

    Ajwang Rading is a Lecturer in Law at the Santa Clara University School of Law. An entrepreneur-investor, lawyer, and policy advisor, his interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on startup law, emerging technologies, and the innovation economy.

    In addition to his Santa Clara Law appointment, Rading serves as Lecturer in Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, where he teaches courses on artificial intelligence (AI).

    Rading leads product and growth at Dialogica, an early-stage, venture-backed AI startup building voice-based tools to modernize complex professional workflows, beginning with the daily practice of law.

    Rading also serves as Of Counsel at Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP, where he advises startups, as well as the venture capital and private equity funds that support them. Before moving into his Of Counsel role, he served as the firm's Lead AI Attorney. Previously, as an attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, he served as outside counsel to startups and Fortune 10 companies alike. In this capacity, he worked across the full company lifecycle (from formation to venture financing to M&A and public markets), and advised on corporate governance, strategic crisis management, complex regulatory matters, and national security.

    Rading is also the Managing Partner of AMR Ventures, a fund focused on catalyzing American economic prosperity through strategic investments in small and medium businesses, and a Partner of Lekadora Group, a real estate holding company.

    Rading’s public service includes a U.S. Congressional campaign (CA-16, 2022) and work as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Cory Booker and then-U.S.-Congressman (now-U.S.-Senator) Adam Schiff. At the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, Rading researched and documented over 4,000 lynchings throughout the American South and helped establish the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

    Today, Rading serves on the board of LifeMoves, the advisory board of Women and Allies (WANDA), and the Human Rights Watch Silicon Valley committee. He is also a Humanity in Action Senior Fellow. He is regularly invited to speak at events such as SXSW and SF Tech Week, and has guest-lectured at institutions such as Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley School of Law, and the University of Lucerne in Switzerland.

    Rading holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where he served as Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA.