Megha Ram
Staff Attorney

Megha joined the Prison Law Office as a staff attorney in 2024. She primarily works on issues related to disability accommodations in California state prisons. Before joining PLO, Megha was Supreme Court and Appellate Counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center and co-instructor of the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic at the UCLA School of Law. In both roles, she litigated civil rights cases across the country with a focus on challenging poor medical care, violence, and inhumane conditions in jails and prisons. Megha graduated from Yale Law School in 2018, after which she clerked for Judge Michael P. Shea on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. During law school, she participated in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and was a co-chair of the Clinical Student Board. Megha graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, San Diego. She was admitted to the California Bar in February 2019.