Lisa Graves

Lisa Graves
Nationality American
Education Juris Doctor
Alma mater Cornell Law School
Occupation Nonprofit executive, political activist
Known for Center for Media and Democracy, The Progressive
Movement Progressivism

Lisa Graves is an American progressive who currently serves as Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).[1][2][3][4]

Career

Graves is a graduate of Cornell Law School. She previously served as the Chief Counsel for Nominations on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee under Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration.[5] Graves has also worked for the American Civil Liberties Union.[6][7][8]

Graves joined the progressive watchdog group Center for Media and Democracy in 2009 as executive director.[9][10] Graves has investigated and reported on so-called "dark money" donations to conservative nonprofit organizations.[6] Graves was interviewed about the Center for Media and Democracy project "ALEC Exposed" in the 2012 Bill Moyers documentary film, United States of ALEC.[11][12]

Graves won a bronze award from the Milwaukee Press Club for Best Investigative Stories or Series of 2011 for the Center for Media and Democracy piece "Group Called Citizens for a Strong America 'Operates out of a UPS Mail Drop but Runs Expensive Ads'".[13]

In 2014 Graves was publisher and editor of the The Progressive, the monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism.[14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Liberal Research Group May Settle Open Records Case". Wisconsin Public Radio. 12-4-2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ "Leftist Billionaires Club Meets This Weekend to Plot Next Political Move". Tinley Park Patch. 5-3-2013. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ↑ Overby, Peter (2013-2-23). "Liberal Watchdog Group: 'Fix The Debt' Movement More Astroturf Than Grassroots". National Public Radio. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Craver, Jack (12-7-2013). "Progressive watchdog group gets two big anonymous donations". Capital Times. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. ↑ Savage, Charlie (2013-08-20). "Newest Spy Court Pick Is a Democrat but Not a Liberal". New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Richards, Tori (12-4-2013). "Liberal ‘media’ group gets $520k dark money donation for war on right". Watchdog. Retrieved 13 June 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ↑ MacEachern, Doug (2013-03-23). "Vilified right-wing ALEC has its left-wing counterpart". Arizona Republic. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Moore, Richard (2014-02-20). "O'Keefe follows through, files lawsuit in John Doe probe". Lakeland Times. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  9. ↑ "Exposing ALEC: The Center for Media and Democracy goes after the right-wing powerhouse". Isthmus. 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
  10. ↑ "Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected". The Atlantic. 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
  11. ↑ Moyers, Bill (September 28, 2012). "United States of ALEC". Moyers & Company (Public Affairs Television). Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  12. ↑ "The United States of ALEC: Bill Moyers on the Secretive Corporate-Legislative Body Writing Our Laws". Democracy Now!. September 27, 2012. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  13. ↑ "2011 Excellence in Journalism Awardees". Milwaukee Press Club. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  14. ↑ Conniff, Ruth (November 2014). "Pulling Together, Saying Goodbye" 78 (11). The Progressive. p. 5.