Hope Mohr(she/her), Co-Director, The Bridge Project (San Francisco, CA)
www.hopemohr.org/staff/#hope

Hope Mohr has woven art and activism for decades as a choreographer, curator, community organizer, and writer. In 2007, she founded HMD to create, present, and foster outstanding art at the intersection of the body and the brain. In 2010, she founded HMD's core program, The Bridge Project, which creates and supports equity-driven live art that builds community and centers artists as agents of change. Hope co-directs The Bridge Project with Cherie Hill and Karla Quintero.

As a dancer, Mohr trained at S.F. Ballet School and on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown Studios in New York City. As a choreographer, Mohr makes work that “conveys emotional and socio-political contents that just ride underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary” (Dance View Times). She was named to the YBCA 100 in 2015 and was a 2016 Fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2014, Dance Magazine named Mohr as one of the “women leaders” in the dance field. She was nominated for the Herb Alpert Prize in 2019 and her new book, Shifting Cultural Power, is forthcoming from the University of Akron Press and the National Center for Choreography. 

As an activist, she has worked for women’s rights and environmental justice through such organizations as AmeriCorps, Earthjustice, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Passionate about pursuing both community organizing and dance, Mohr earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Columbia Human Rights Fellow. She is on the stewardship team of the Non Profit Democracy Network.