Arti Finn

Co-Founder / Chief Strategy Officer APDS

Arti Finn, the foremost authority on the use of technology to enhance educational outcomes and applies her expertise to advance the nation’s over 6 million justice-impacted.

She is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of APDS, an ed-tech public benefit corporation that began at the intersections of technology, education, and the justice-impacted. Creating pathways to living wage employment for justice-impacted people is her daily charge.

My life goal is to transform the corrections industry from warehousing to a place of true rehabilitation. ~Arti Finn

Arti has served as Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Business Development Officer, and most recently Chief Strategy Officer for APDS, the company she co-founded in 2013, which currently operates in 20 states and the District of Columbia, and hundreds of facilities.

By 2025 Arti is dedicated to preparing 100,000 justice-impacted individuals to secure a living wage job post-incarceration.