ABOUT MOVEMENT LAW, P.C.
Movement Law is the community-based law practice of Hope Mohr (she/her) dedicated to supporting artists, changemakers, and mission-driven organizations.
A licensed California attorney and an arts leader, Mohr works at the intersection of art and social change as a Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC).
She co-leads the Artist Legal Cafe, a collaboration with SELC and Vital Arts.
PRACTICE AREAS
Organizational strategy and visioning
Entity selection, formation, and re-structuring
Leadership transition & shared leadership
Democracy in the workplace
Contract drafting & negotiation
Intellectual Property
Nonprofit best practices & compliance
Nonprofit incorporation, reinstatement & dissolution
Nonprofit Boards and by-laws
Grantwriting & Philanthropy
Collaboration best practices
Fiscal sponsorship
Nondisclosure agreements
Mutual aid
AFFILIATIONS
— Fellow, Sustainable Economies Law Center (current)
— Fellow, CA for the Arts’ Grassroots Artist Advocacy Program (2025)
— Member, Cooperative Professionals Guild (current)
— Lawyer Referral Panel, California Lawyers for the Arts (2024-25)
— Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago (Visiting Staff, 2025)
— Thought Partner/Artist Mentor, National Center for Choreography’s Creative Administration Research (2024-current)
— Board Member, Southern Exposure (current)
— Stewardship Committee, Non Profit Democracy Network (2020-21)
— Creating New Futures, Contracts Working Group, White Caucus (2021-2023)
— Licensed to practice in Illinois (Out of State Pro Bono)
ARTS LEADERSHIP
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 for over 15 years supported over 100 socially engaged artists. 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 transitioned out of co-leadership at BLA in 2023.
EDUCATION
Mohr earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Human Rights Fellow. As an undergraduate at Stanford, she worked at the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, won the Michele Rosaldo Thesis Prize for Outstanding Feminist Research, and was awarded a Kennedy Public Interest Fellowship for field work in the Nicaraguan women’s movement.
WRITING
Mohr’s book about activist cultural work, Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance, was published in 2020 by the National Center for Choreography. She is a contributor to Artists on Creative Administration (2024), edited by Tonya Lockyer and also published by the National Center for Choreography. She co-authored Notes for Equitable Funding (2022) as a part of Creating New Futures.
Press Coverage of Shifting Cultural Power
Hope is also a proud contributor to Artists on Creative Administration (2024),
a workbook from the National Center for Choreography, edited by Tonya Lockyer.
