Inayat Chaudhry

Inayat Chaudhry

Legal Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation

“You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.” ― Bill Watterson

About me

I graduated from Claremont McKenna in 2012 with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. During my senior year of college I worked on Shakespeare’s authorship question with Professors Ward Elliott and Robert Valenza as a John R. Dunbar Fellow. I received my J.D. from University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. During law school, I served as President of the Arizona Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society and was a co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Arizona Law Journal of Emerging Technologies. As an Intellectual Property enthusiast, I interned for the Center for Creative Photography where I worked on copyright issues for the Center and the law school’s Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship Clinic.

I joined Wikimedia Foundation’s legal team as a fellow on leap day in 2016. My legal areas of interest include copyright, cyberlaw, cybersecurity and privacy. My non-legal interests include learning about the human brain, the universe, artificial intelligence, and chaos theory.

Other stuff I love: re-reading Calvin and Hobbes, all things tech, running and hiking. I am currently teaching myself: how to code in python and play the acoustic guitar.

My work

I work with the legal team on a range of legal issues such as privacy, cyberlaw and copyright among others.

Disclaimer: I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I intend to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

E-mail: ichaudhrywikimedia.org