Lisa Holder, Esq. is a nationally recognized, award-winning trial attorney who has been identified as a "Super Lawyer" by Los Angeles Magazine for four consecutive years. She has dedicated her career to racial and social justice and systems change.  The Open Society Foundation, recognizing her commitment, awarded her a Soros Justice Fellowship. Holder currently operates a civil rights practice that focuses on a wide array of legal services including police misconduct, workplace discrimination, public school equity, and wage and hour litigation, severance package and workplace accommodations negotiations, criminal trials and appeals, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting.  

Additionally, Holder is a recognized racial justice scholar and equity consultant.  She periodically teaches the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic at UCLA Law School. She serves as a legislative consultant on institutional bias elimination, drafting California bias elimination laws and testifying as a subject matter expert in the California Assembly/Senate.  In 2019, Holder drafted AB 241 and 242, the laws that now require all judges, attorneys, court staff and health professionals to undertake continuing education on bias-elimination. In 2020, she co-steered the Proposition 16 campaign to repeal California’s ban on Affirmative Action. In 2021, she was appointed by the Governor to serve on the nation’s first Congressional Reparations Task Force to analyze the case for African American reparations. Holder has designed and implemented diversity solutions and implicit bias trainings for non-profits, government entities, private equity, Hollywood film and television companies, and Public Defender offices across the country. She recently designed equity programming for the City of Oakland, Stanford University, the American Bar Association, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and the London School of Economics Alumni Association.

Previously, Holder worked as Legal Director of the Equal Justice Society, Los Angeles Deputy Alternate Public Defender and Law Clerk for the Equal Justice Initiative. She served on the ACLU Board of Directors for four years and is, currently, Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Child Care Law Center.

After obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree at Wesleyan University, Holder graduated from New York University School of Law as a distinguished Root-Tilden Scholar.