Lisa Graves is a progressive activist who is the executive director of True North Research and president of the board of the

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(CMD). She served as executive director for CMD from 2009 to 2017, when she left to co-found Documented Investigations (now Documented.net). Graves also serves on the advisory board of U.S. Right to Know, and has previously advised UnKoch My Campus and the Bill of Rights Defense Fund.

Career

Graves received her J.D. degree from Cornell Law School. She previously served as the Chief Counsel for Nominations on the

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under Senator

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(D-Vermont) and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the

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during the Clinton Administration. Graves also worked as the Senior Legislative Strategist on national security issues for the

American Civil Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1920 "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States". T ...

, and as an adjunct law professor at the George Washington University Law School. Graves joined the progressive watchdog group

in 2009 as executive director. Graves has investigated and reported on the

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, the

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(ALEC), and the

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. In 2020, she published a report titled "The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill The U.S. Postal Service", which alleged that

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had been trying to privatize the U.S. Postal Service since the 1970s. Graves has received awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Sidney Award, the Park Center for Independent Media, the

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, and Cornell Law School.

References

External links

True North Research
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