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Lisa Graves is a researcher, writer, and speaker. Lisa is the Managing Director of Court Accountability and the Director of its research arm, True North Research, which she founded. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy/Policy Development, Chief Counsel for Nominations on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Deputy Chief of the Article III Judges Division for the U.S. Courts, among other posts.

Lisa is also the President of the Board of the Center for Media and Democracy (which I led from 2009-2017) and a Trustee for the Park Foundation.

She has appeared on MSNBC, NBC, CNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, BBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now!, and other news shows.

Lisa's analysis has been quoted in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Toronto Star, Agence France-Presse, and more.

Lisa has been published in the New York Times, Slate, TIME, The Hill, the Nation, In These Times, the Progressive, PRWatch, Common Dreams, Yes!, Huffington Post, Truthout, Alternet, Washington Spectator, and other outlets. Her analysis has been cited in Pod Save America, Newsweek, Vice, Wired, Vanity Fair, Politico, Business Week, Rolling Stone, Roll Call, Newsday, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Legal Times, the Atlantic, Mother Jones, and more.

Lisa has been featured in Ava Du Vernay's film, The 13th, which won four Emmy awards and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary. She also appeared in Showtime’s Years of Living Dangerously with America Ferrera, in a documentary narrated by Bill Moyers "The United States of ALEC," in Paramount/BET's Rest in Power: the Trayvon Martin Story, and other films.

She has been a featured guest on major radio,including NPR’s Fresh Air, Morning Edition, and Marketplace Report and on the BBC, CBC, Deutschlandfunk, plus the radio shows of Ian Masters, Duncan Campbell, Brad Friedman, Nicole Sandler, and R.J. Eskow.

Lisa's research is also cited in books such as Dark Money by Jane Mayer, Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman, Opus by Gareth Gore, Anti-Democratic by David Daley, Stench by David Brock, Corporate Citizen by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The Fall of Wisconsin by Dan Kaufman, and others.

Lisa has also testified to the House and Senate and edited briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.Ìý