Background

Lisa R. Green

Lisa's career in immigration law began back in 1984 when she was awarded a full scholarship to the Urban Morgan Institute for International Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati of Law. Serving as a staff editor of the Human Rights Quarterly, Lisa reviewed manuscripts from leading human rights attorneys and academics from all over the world. She also had an opportunity to attend seminars and international conferences on human rights law. After graduating in the top ten percent of her class, Lisa clerked for a judge in Boulder, Colorado. From 1987 to 1990, she taught at Suffolk Law School in Boston, Massachusetts where she also worked with an organization aiding asylum seekers from El Salvador and Guatemala. Thereafter, Lisa joined the law firm of Stern Elkind and Curray in Denver where she specialized in immigration law from 1990 until 2006. During that time, Lisa was instrumental in starting the Young Lawyers Division of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, where she has been a member for the past 16 years. She has also lectured on various areas of immigration law throughout the United States. Lisa opened her own firm in Boulder, Colorado in October 2006 and continues to specialize and limit her practice to immigration law.

C. Paige Gardner

C. Paige Gardner graduated from the University of Colorado Law School in 2002. Prior to that, she obtained a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in French and International Relations. Ms. Gardner has successfully represented clients in Immigration Court, and before the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Federal District Court of Colorado, and the Tenth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. Ms. Gardner has lectured on various topics in Immigration Law, and currently serves on the Pro Bono Mentoring Panel for the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Ellie Carroll

Ellie Carroll began her work in human rights during her undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa. While there she had the opportunity to make a documentary about a Mexican family in immigration proceedings. It was through this experience that Ellie gained a strong interest in immigration issues and decided to pursue it further. She graduated in 2005 with a degree in International Studies with emphases on Latin America and Human Rights. In 2006 she continued her studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver. While there she researched human rights conditions around the world and studied global health patterns. During this time Ellie also served as the Coordinator for the Asylum Project at the International Human Rights Law and Advocacy Center. In this role she worked closely with attorneys and people from all over the world to help our clients gain asylum in the United States. In 2008 Ellie graduated from the University of Denver with a Masters of Arts in International Human Rights and certificates in both Development and Global Health. Ellie also speaks Spanish. To further pursue her studies of human rights Ellie has traveled to Chile to study social justice and development as well as to Mexico where she worked with indigenous communities to teach them about their own rights as communities, individuals, and women. Ellie has now been working and studying immigration and human rights for the last six years.