Bio
Alyssa Gordon is an attorney and was a 2023-2025 Borchard Fellow in Law & Aging at the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s National Prison Project in Washington, D.C. Her fellowship project focuses on compassionate release advocacy in carceral settings to help vulnerable incarcerated people secure early release, with the ultimate goal of drastically reducing America’s incarcerated population. In her work, Alyssa utilizes an integrated advocacy approach, which includes: 1) class action litigation in the Ninth Circuit to better protect the rights of elderly incarcerated people and people with disabilities; 2) policy development and bill drafting in Arizona to help pass the state’s first compassionate release law; and 3) research and public education initiatives to highlight the compounded abuse that aging incarcerated people face on the inside.
Alyssa is a 2022 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. Immediately after graduating law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Victoria A. Roberts of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Alyssa fundamentally believes that, in the words of Mariame Kaba, we must fight to create a world where human disposability is unimaginable.