Elizabeth Jordan is a visiting professor in the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Immigration Law & Policy Clinic. Her practice, teaching, and scholarship focus on advancing human rights in the United States legal system through trauma-informed, cross-cultural representation of her clients. Prof. Jordan has significant experience at the intersection of immigration law, disability law, and the criminal legal system, and has dedicated her career to working on the front lines of these issues including through zealous representation of death-sentenced prisoners, immigrant children, and immigrants with disabilities in  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. As the director of the ILPC, she supervises law students representing people in ICE custody and in removal proceedings in Aurora, Colorado.

Her prior work, at the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) in Denver, included serving as co-lead counsel in Fraihat v. ICE, a systemwide class action lawsuit that led to the release of thousands of detained immigrants with elevated risk factors for COVID-19 during the pandemic.