Our Team
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Staff
Manuchca Alcime
Legal Program Assistant
Abraao Antonio
Senior Information Systems Specialist
Sarah Barton (she/her)
Senior Development & Communications Lead
Melissa Brennan, Esq. (she/her)
Co-Legal Director
Kate Chesney, Esq. (she/her)
Senior Staff Attorney, Intake Supervisor
Laura Clark
Legal Program Assistant, Jesuit Volunteer Corps
Treva deMaynadier, DOJ Fully Accredited Representative (she/her)
Senior Accredited Representative
Paula Esteves, Esq. (she/her)
Project Attorney, AALOP
Michelle Gentry, Esq. (she/her)
Senior Asylum Program Attorney
Leah Glowacki, Esq. (she/her)
Senior Staff Attorney
Marjorie Hankla (she/her)
Development Director
Beatriz Harley (she/her)
Senior Development & Grants Lead
Alice Kopij, Esq. (she/her)
Co-Legal Director
Catherine N. Lindgren, Esq. (she/her)
Senior Project Attorney, AALOP
Maggie Loeffelholz, Esq. (she/her)
Immigrant Children’s Project Attorney
Emily Nault Massell, Esq. (she/her)
Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow
Emma Morgenstern, Esq. (she/her)
Senior Staff Attorney
Jaimie Mulligan (she/they)
Operations and Administrative Assistant
Eric Munyentwari
Legal Program Assistant, AALOP
Francine Ngabu, DOJ Accredited Representative
Senior Intake Paralegal
Lisa Parisio, Esq. (she/her)
Policy Director
Nolwenn Robison, DOJ Accredited Representative (she/they)
Paralegal, Lewiston Office
Susan Roche, Esq. (she/her)
Executive Director
Chelsea Russell, DOJ Accredited Representative (she/her)
Forms Program Paralegal
Sarah Scola, SHRM-CP (she/her)
Human Resources and Operations Director
Laura Simocko (she/her)
Senior Development Advisor
Lourdes Trujillo (she/her)
Rural Community Liaison
Kate Turrell (she/her)
Paralegal
Nadine Twagirayezu, DOJ Accredited Representative
Senior Paralegal
Kate Weaver, Esq.
Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow
Don Wilkinson, Esq.
Rural Maine Project Attorney
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Board of directors
ILAP is proud to have a volunteer board of community members and legal professionals. Many of ILAP’s former and current board members bring connections to the communities we serve. ILAP’s Board is actively involved in the organization’s management philosophy, fundraising, and policy work.
Thomas Douglas, Esq., President
Douglas, McDaniel & Campo
Barbara Leen, Esq., Vice President
Microsoft
Amy Donahoe Bruning, Treasurer
Elder Institute of Maine
Andi Summers, Secretary
Foundation for Portland Public Schools
Gloria Aponte C., Maine Community Foundation
Cesar Britos, Esq., Unum
Alicia Curtis, Esq.
Amy Hagemeier, International Rescue Committee
Lindsay Kay, County of Oxford, Maine
Arnold Macdonald, Esq., Bernstein Shur
Robyn March, Esq., March Law Office, PLLC
Priya Natarajan, Portland Public Schools
Erin Reed, Trinity Jubilee Center
Fatima Saidi, National Partnership for New Americans