Movement Law, the client-centered law practice of Hope Mohr (she/her), is dedicated to supporting artists, changemakers, and mission-driven organizations.
A licensed California attorney, Mohr works at the intersection of art and social change as a Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center.
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.
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.
AFFILIATIONS
—Fellow, Sustainable Economies Law Center (current)
—Fellow, CA for the Arts’ Grassroots Artist Advocacy program (current)
—Member, Cooperative Professionals Guild (current)
—Lawyer Referral Panel, California Lawyers for the Arts (current)
—Pro bono staff, Community Enterprise & Solidarity Economy Clinic, University of Illinois at Chicago (current)
—Thought Partner/Artist Mentor, National Center for Choreography’s Creative Arts Administration program (2024-current)
—Stewardship Committee, Non Profit Democracy Network (2020-21)
—Creating New Futures, Phase 2 (Contracts Working Group and White Caucus) (2021-2023)
PRACTICE AREAS
Organizational consulting
Leadership transition consulting
Democratizing the workplace/Models of distributed leadership
Contracts & MOUs
Nonprofit organization best practices & compliance
Intellectual Property
Nonprofit incorporation
Value-aligning Boards and by-laws
Entity selection & formation
Artist capacity-building
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 cultural work as activism, Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance, was published in 2020 by the National Center for Choreography, the inaugural book in their publication series. She is a contributor to the anthology 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.
