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 Attracta
Kelly, OP joined the Justice Center in November 1999 as an
attorney with the Center's Immigrants Legal Assistance Project
(ILAP). In that role she provides direct legal assistance to
low-income immigrants seeking to gain United States citizenship
and/or legal residence status. Attracta is widely recognized
as North Carolina's leading non-profit provider of legal assistance
in the field of immigration law and has helped hundreds of
individuals and families. A member of the Dominican Sisters of
Adrian Michigan, Attracta has also worked in Washington, DC with
Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) and with Legal Services
of DC. She spent two years doing asylum and immigration policy
work with Jesuit Refugee Services in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to
receiving her law degree from Catholic University of American, she
worked in the field of education in Florida, Alabama and Louisiana
and did community organizing in low-income areas of west Tennessee. |
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Gerry
Megel, a Dominican Sister from Adrian Michigan has spent over 19
years in North and South Carolina, several years at St. Paul the
Apostle Parish in Greensboro, NC and in South Carolina at the
Charleston Diocesan Office of Religious Education. Gerry also
founded and directed The Family Shelter, a home for families in
crisis in Columbia, SC. Originally from Michigan she ministered
there as a Chaplain in Harper Hospital, and later at Romero House in
Toronto, Canada working with refugees. Gerry was director of the
Caring Place, a shelter for abused women and children in Lebanon,
Kentucky and more recently she spent three years as a missionary in
South Africa. Today, Gerry volunteers at Shepherd’s Table and at
the Catholic Parish Outreach in Raleigh. |
