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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. |
