Movement Law, the client-centered, community-based law practice of Hope Mohr (she/her), is dedicated to supporting artists 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.
Mohr earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar and a Human Rights Fellow. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, 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.
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 (current)
—Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago (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, Co-Author of “Notes for Equitable Funding” (2021-2023)
PRACTICE AREAS
Organizational consulting
Entity selection & formation
Leadership transition & Shared leadership
Democratizing the workplace
Contracts & MOUs
Nonprofit organization best practices & compliance
Nonprofit incorporation
Intellectual Property
Value-aligning Boards and by-laws
Grantwriting & Philanthropy
Best practices for collaboration
Fiscal sponsorship
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 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 transitioned out of co-leadership at BLA in 2023.
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.
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.
