Their current research seeks to explore Queer, Transgender and Non-Binary remixing, reclamation and reconciliation of varied Christian dogmas through performative explorations in theatre, dance, film, and music videos, and how this practice intersects with racial identity and contribute to Queer Futurist Liberation models. 

Alongside their practice as a theatre and dance educator for a little over a decade, their work has been seen across the Bay Area performance landscape as a director, choreographer, actor, producer, and dramaturg and will continue to marry scholarship with practice in their doctoral journey and advocacy work.

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In 2020, Mohr co-stewarded the organization’s transition to an equity-driven, BIPOC-led model of distributed leadership and a new name: Bridge Live Arts. Her book, ""Shifting Cultural Power: Case Studies and Questions in Performance,"" was published in 2020 by the National Center for Choreography.

As an artist working across dance, theater, visual art, and writing, Mohr explores feminism, gender, and sexuality. For over thirty years, she has made multidisciplinary performance that “conveys emotional and soMultidisciplinary artist and licensed California attorney Hope Mohr (she/her) works at the intersection of art and social change as a Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center.cio-political contents that ride just underneath the surface of a rigorous vocabulary.” (Dance View Times). Her work has been presented throughout the U.S. in both theatrical contexts and also extensively in museums and galleries, from SFMOMA, to the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston, and 18th Street Arts Center in LA. She has been named to the YBCA 100 and also named as one of the ""women leaders” in dance by Dance Magazine editor-in-chief Wendy Perron. She is currently a Lucas Artist in Residence at Montalvo Arts Center. 

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Previously, he founded and ran Nomadic Press, a community-rooted publishing house headquartered in Oakland and sat on Oakland's Cultural Affairs Commission, during which time he helped launch the Oakland Poet Laureate Program. 

He is currently most interested in the intersections of civic bodies, private development, arts organizations, and community benefits agreements that can help to ensure artist and arts organization retention in the cities that they love and support.

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Working closely with Indigenous and traditional arts cultural bearers, she creates gatherings that revitalize ancestral wisdom, lifeways, and language for well-being and collective liberation. These projects form The Caracol Collective, a framework and network that emphasizes healing ourselves to heal society and Mother Earth. With nearly a decade of experience, Natalia supports BIPOC artists and the ecosystems sustaining them across the Bay Area arts landscape. 

As the former Executive Director of La Peña Cultural Center, she became attuned to BIPOC artists' needs across the Bay (2016-2024). She also co-chaired the Berkeley Cultural Trust’s Equity & Inclusion Committee from 2019 to 2023, leading advocacy efforts that centered racial justice. 

Currently, Natalia is a Creative West Greater Bay Area Arts & Culture Coalition Fellow, where she advocates for racial and economic equity. Her fellowship project documents coalition-building practices rooted in Indigeneity and racial justice, creating frameworks and tools to share with the field.

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Her recent short documentary, I’m Oakland, follows an African-American woman's efforts to preserve her home and legacy amidst rapid gentrification. Her directorial debut, Lalezar Street (2000), premiered at the Fajr International Film Festival. 

From 2008-2016, she directed a web series profiling Iranian immigrant artists in North America. Kashi co-wrote and edited Our Summer in Tehran (2011), an anti-war documentary on a Jewish American mother and her son meeting Iranian families, which aired on PBS and international networks. Her editing work also includes Surviving International Boulevard, an award-winning short on child sex trafficking in Oakland, and she served as a staff editor at MTV Canada. 

Currently, Kashi is directing The Patient Woman, a feature documentary tracing her search for home between Iran and America. Her work has earned support from the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Berkeley Film Foundation, and NATAS. In 2016, she co-founded Re-Present Media, a nonprofit supporting documentaries from underrepresented communities.

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