Amelia Steadman McGowan is the Immigration Campaign Director at the Mississippi Center for Justice and is also an adjunct professor at Mississippi College School of Law, where she teaches Immigration Law and has directed the school’s Immigration Clinic since its founding in 2016. Amelia previously worked at Catholic Charities of Jackson, where she served as the Program Director of the agency’s immigration legal services program. As an immigration attorney, Amelia has focused her practice on asylum representation and immigration appeals, representing clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals, federal circuit courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to her direct client representation, Amelia has also worked to coordinate and mentor Mississippi pro bono attorneys to represent Mississippi immigrants in removal proceedings as well as organize community outreach and education sessions on immigration-related topics throughout the state. Amelia is a graduate of Tulane University, where she received her J.D. and M.A. in Latin American Studies, as well as the University of Southern Mississippi, where she earned her B.A. in History and Spanish and participated in study abroad/cultural exchange programs in Vietnam and Panama.