Arianne Callender

Arianne Callender is the Assistant General Counsel at Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing treatments for dermatological diseases. She previously held senior legal roles at Kite Pharma and Amgen. In the public sector, she served as counsel to the HHS Office of Inspector General, specializing in fraud and abuse enforcement for public health programs, and as Deputy Oversight Counsel to the House Homeland Security Committee. Shortly after law school, she landed her dream job as General Counsel to EWG. There she authored a report exposing the failures of the Pigford v. Glickman civil rights settlement in addressing systemic federal lending inequities faced by America's black farmers. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in English from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and received her JD from Harvard Law School. She lives in Southern California with her wife, Kathleen.