Amelia Steadman McGowan serves as director of immigration law at the Mississippi Center for Justice. Amelia 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 2015. Amelia comes to MCJ from Catholic Charities of Jackson, where she served as the Program Director of the agency’s immigration legal services program. Amelia is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi Honors College, where she earned her BA in history and Spanish and participated in study abroad/cultural exchange programs in Vietnam and Panama, as well as Tulane University, where she received her JD and MA in Latin American Studies. Amelia is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Brazilian Portuguese.