Jamie Torres

Council President | Denver City Council

Council President Jamie Torres took office as the Denver City Council Member representing District 3, Denver’s westside, on July 15, 2019. She was elected to serve as Council President in 2022 and 2023. Jamie’s roots are directly in the west Denver community where she and her husband currently call home. She is a third-generation Denverite. Her family moved to the Villa Park Neighborhood in the 1960s where Jamie has now lived for over 35 years. It is her home and the community is her inspiration. Prior to being elected, Jamie spent 18 years in the Human Rights & Community Partnerships Agency (HRCP) in the City and County of Denver where she helped ensure Denver is focused on the civil rights, human rights, and social justice needs of its residents. Jamie was both Deputy Director of the Agency and Director of the Denver Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs, an office she established in 2005 because she saw a need for greater immigrant inclusion. Over the years in working for local government, Jamie worked directly on issues of poverty, wage theft, affordable housing, equity, food insecurity, community and civic engagement, immigrant integration, and approaching innovative ways of direct leadership development in underrepresented communities. Jamie serves as a member of the Science & Cultural Facilities District Board as well as the Mile High Flood District Board.