Vikrant Reddy is the senior research fellow at the Charles Koch Institute in Arlington, VA, where he focuses on criminal justice and policing reform. Reddy previously served as a senior policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he managed the launch of their national Right on Crime initiative in 2010. He has also worked as a research assistant at the Cato Institute, as a law clerk to the Hon. Gina M. Benavides of the 13th Court of Appeals of Texas, and as an attorney in private practice. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas and an appointee to the executive committee of the Criminal Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society. He is also an appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Texas State Advisory Committee. Reddy graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s in Plan II honors, economics, and history and earned his law degree at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas.