Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center

The Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center (CREEC) is a nonprofit legal organization that fights for liberation through the lens of intersectional disability justice through a combination of education, legal advocacy direct services, and impact litigation. CREEC's Immigration Detention Accountability Project (IDAP) works at the intersection of immigrant and disability justice. Through impact litigation, direct representation, and education, we fight for people in contact with our country’s ableist immigration system. Our project believes that immigration detention must be abolished.

This award will be accepted by Liz Jordan, Director of CREEC’s Immigration Detention Accountability Project.

Liz joined CREEC in 2017 as the first-ever CREEC Fellow, proposing work that would become the Immigration Detention Accountability Project (IDAP). In the last five years, Liz has led IDAP through major class-action lawsuits, individual representation, technical assistance, and legal education at the intersection of immigration and disability justice. Liz is a fierce and compassionate advocate, using trauma-informed and cross-cultural methods to meet people where they are and fight for a more just future for immigrants in the United States. Before joining CREEC, Liz was a staff attorney at The Door’s Legal Services Center, New York City and was a Fellow with the Capital Appeals Project in Louisiana. Prior to law school, Liz spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain studying human rights issues. Liz received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s School of Law. Liz is admitted to practice in Louisiana and New York.