Lisa Graves is the founder and Executive Director of True North Research. She has served as  Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Policy Development/Legal Policy at the US Department of Justice under Attorneys General Janet Reno and John Ashcroft, as Chief Counsel for Nominations for Senator Patrick Leahy on the US Senate Judiciary Committee, and in other government positions. She has worked as an adjunct law professor at George Washington University Law School and the Senior Legislative Strategist for the ACLU on national security and civil liberties, and led the Center on Media and Democracy.