Movement Law, the law practice of Hope Mohr (she/her), is dedicated to supporting artists.
A licensed California attorney, a working artist, and a queer feminist, Mohr works at the intersection of art and social change as a Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
PRACTICE AREAS
Contracts
Intellectual Property
Nonprofit incorporation & compliance
Implementing models of distributed leadership
Value-aligning Boards and by-laws
Entity selection and formation
Governance consulting
Artist capacity-building
Mohr earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar, a Human Rights Fellow, and part of the Death Penalty Dialogue Project with Professor Jim Liebman. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, she worked at the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project; earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies; won the Michele Rosaldo Thesis Prize for Outstanding Feminist Research; and was awarded a Kennedy Public Interest Fellowship for field work in Nicaragua.
In addition to being a Fellow at the Sustainable Economies Law Center, she has been on the stewardship team of the Non Profit Democracy Network; part of Creating New Futures (Contracts Working Group and White Caucus); and on the Board of Southern Exposure.
Mohr has woven art and activism for decades as a choreographer, curator, and writer. After a professional dance career with Trisha Brown and Lucinda Childs, she founded the nonprofit Hope Mohr Dance and its signature presenting program, The Bridge Project, which supported over 100 artists through commissions, residencies, workshops, and collaborative performance projects. In 2020, Mohr co-stewarded the organization’s transition to an equity-driven model of distributed leadership and a new name: Bridge Live Arts.
Mohr’s book about cultural work as activism, Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance, was published in 2020 by the National Center for Choreography.
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