Licensed in California

Working artist and attorney supporting creatives and mission-driven organizations to navigate change.

Hope Mohr (she/her) works at the intersection of the solidarity economy and the arts. Her practice areas include:

- Models of distributed leadership/Leadership transition
- Contracts
- Nonprofit incorporation & compliance
- Value-aligning Boards and by-laws
- Entity selection and formation
- Governance consulting
- 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, she founded and directed 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 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. After college, she worked for such organizations as AmeriCorps, Earthjustice, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

She has been on the stewardship team of the Non Profit Democracy Network and was part of Creating New Futures (Contracts Working Group, White Caucus, and contributor to "Notes on Equitable Funding").

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. 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.

Contact Hope at movementlaw.net.