Lisa Graves is an activist. Currently, she is the director of True North Research and president of the board of the Center for Media and Democracy. She was executive director for CMD from 2009 to 2017, when she left to co-found Documented.net.Previously, Graves served as the Chief Counsel for Nominations on the United States Senate Judiciary Committee and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration. She has also worked as the Senior Legislative Strategist on national security issues for the American Civil Liberties Union, and as an adjunct law professor at the George Washington University Law School.