Lisa Graves

Lisa Graves is a progressive activist who is senior fellow and former executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). She served in this role from 2009 to 2017, when she became president of True North Research and co-director of DocumentedInvestigations.org.[1][2][3] Graves also serves on the advisory board of UnKoch.[4]

Lisa Graves
Alma materCornell Law School (Juris Doctor)
OccupationNonprofit executive, political activist
Known forFormer executive director of Center for Media and Democracy
MovementProgressivism

Career

Graves received her J.D. degree from Cornell Law School.[5] 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.[6] Graves also worked as the Senior Legislative Strategist on national security issues for the American Civil Liberties Union,[5][7] and as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School.[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 the Koch Brothers, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the State Policy Network.

Accolades
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gollark: Anyway, what I was saying is that maybe you can use the methods it claims only apply to Craftable things on whatever the getItemsInNetwork thing returns.
gollark: Maybe put in a fake recipe which says it uses some random item or other, detect that, and then run the crafting job.
gollark: You can probably work out some kind of horrible bodge for it.
gollark: Or at least request-able things.

References
  1. "Liberal Research Group May Settle Open Records Case". Wisconsin Public Radio. December 4, 2013. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  2. Overby, Peter (February 2, 2013). "Liberal Watchdog Group: 'Fix The Debt' Movement More Astroturf Than Grassroots". National Public Radio. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  3. Craver, Jack (December 7, 2013). "Progressive watchdog group gets two big anonymous donations". Capital Times. Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  4. "Unclear Funding for UnKoch: Campus Activists Create a Boogeyman". Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  5. Interviewed Chris Martell (1 March 2012). "Know Your Madisonian: Lisa Graves helps raise awareness of public-opinion manipulation". madison.com.
  6. Savage, Charlie (2013-08-20). "Newest Spy Court Pick Is a Democrat but Not a Liberal". New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  7. "Lisa Graves, Author at EXPOSEDbyCMD". EXPOSEDbyCMD. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  8. "Lisa Graves - TopWonks". www.topwonks.org. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  9. "Exposing ALEC: The Center for Media and Democracy goes after the right-wing powerhouse". Isthmus. May 10, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  10. "Exposing ALEC: How Conservative-Backed State Laws Are All Connected". The Atlantic. April 4, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  11. "2011 Excellence in Journalism Awardees | Milwaukee Press Club". www.milwaukeepressclub.org. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  12. Mary Bottari and Lisa Graves Win September Sidney Award for ALEC:Exposed, Sidney Hillman Foundation, September 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
  13. Curran, Jack. "Izzy Award recipients honored | The Ithacan". theithacan.org. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  14. Washington, 1440 G. Street NW; 20005, Dc (2013-08-13). "Sunlight Wins AEJMC Journalism Award". Sunlight Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-02.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. Technologies, Instructional and Web Services, Cornell Information. "Cornell Law School Public Service Awards". www.lawschool.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
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