Aditi Sherikar

Aditi Sherikar is the Public Policy Director at The Clean Slate Initiative (CSI). In this role, she is responsible for shaping and leading CSI’s policy strategies to ensure that Clean Slate laws grow their impact across the U.S. Aditi is a dedicated advocate with extensive experience working at the intersection of law, policy, and justice.

Prior to joining CSI, she was a Senior Policy Associate at Children’s Defense Fund-California, where she led statewide advocacy to challenge systems that surveil and incarcerate youth. Aditi’s work focused on legislative and grassroots campaigns, legal strategies, and grasstops advocacy in service of youth justice, including ending the use of tear gas in juvenile facilities, closing juvenile halls in Los Angeles, and redirecting state funds away from incarceration and toward community.

Previously, Aditi was an early policy leader in the progressive prosecution movement, serving as the first Director of Juvenile Diversion Programs at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. In this role, Aditi led the design and implementation of a multi-pronged expansion of juvenile diversion. Under her leadership, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office launched several evidence-based and innovative diversion programs, including Philly’s first ever restorative justice diversion for felonies and high-level misdemeanors.

Before joining the public sector, Aditi was in private practice at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP where she was a Managing Associate in the firm’s corporate group. During her time as a corporate attorney, Aditi managed mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and an array of other sophisticated transactions.

Aditi graduated from University of California, San Diego with a B.A. in Political Science and Communications and earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

Aditi lives in Southern California with her husband and son. In her free time, when not wrangling her toddler, she loves reading fiction and honing her amateur baking skills.