Before joining the Hub, Peter Calloway was a Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School’s Criminal Defense and Justice Clinic. There, he supervised law students representing people charged with misdemeanors in D.C. Superior Court, taught trial advocacy and related skills to aspiring public defenders, and maintained a small caseload of misdemeanor and felony matters. He led a clinic team that, after months of litigation and extensive briefing, secured a judicial finding that the Metropolitan Police Department had violated their client’s equal protection rights by selectively enforcing D.C.’s marijuana laws in a racially discriminatory manner.

Peter joined the law school after five years as a public defender in San Francisco, where he developed and led a project targeting prosecutorial misconduct. As part of that effort, he created a tool to help public defender offices track and respond to misconduct, supported litigation of misconduct issues in trial courts, filed complaints with the state bar, and engaged in media and public advocacy to raise awareness and push for reform. He later moved into the trial division, where he represented hundreds of clients and tried multiple cases to jury verdict. He also served on the office’s policy team, working on systemic challenges to structural injustice and advocating for legislative and policy reform. Peter was a senior advisor to the 2020 Chesa Boudin for District Attorney campaign, where he designed policies to reduce the size of and harm caused by the District Attorney’s office.

Peter regularly writes and speaks about the criminal punishment bureaucracy. His writing has appeared in The Appeal, The San Francisco Examiner, The Daily Journal, and other outlets, and he has been interviewed in Mother Jones and on several podcasts, including The New Republic’s The Politics of Everything. He has developed and led trainings for public defenders and law students on issues ranging from trial advocacy to addressing prosecutorial misconduct.

Before becoming a lawyer, Peter worked as a graphic designer and photo retoucher.