STAFF
Beth Stickney, Esq., Executive Director
Susan Roche, Esq., Supervising Attorney
Barbara Taylor, Esq., Staff Attorney
Jennifer Bailey, Esq., Staff Attorney
Muna Hassan, Paralegal
Andi Summers, Paralegal/Detention Paralegal
Rachel Watson, Legal Program Associate/Volunteer Coordinator
Hayden Anderson, CFRE, Development Director
Emma Lockwood, Office and Development Associate
Beth Stickney, Esq., Executive Director
Beth co-founded ILAP in 1993 and became ILAP’s Executive Director in January, 2000. Beth is the key staff person for ILAP’s education and outreach and systemic advocacy projects. Beth graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 1985 and was the Directing Attorney of the Legal Department at the International Institute of Boston prior to returning to Maine to direct ILAP. Beth co-authored, with Sarah Ignatius, Immigration Law and the Family (Thompson West), the leading legal treatise on all aspects of how immigration law impacts families. She also created the Immigration Law Seminar at the University of Maine School of Law which she taught from 1994 - 2005. Beth is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and her practice in Maine is limited to Immigration and Nationality matters. She is fluent in Spanish.
Susan Roche, Esq., Supervising Attorney
Sue joined ILAP as a Staff Attorney in August, 2000 and became our Supervising Attorney in 2003. In addition to handling her own caseload of full representation cases, Sue supervises other ILAP attorney and paralegal staff, and oversees ILAP’s Pro bono panel. Sue graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in 2000. She is an expert on family based immigration, remedies for noncitizen domestic violence and crime victims, and removal defense, and has been an invited presenter at regional and national conferences of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Sue is admitted to the Maine Bar and is fluent in Spanish.
Barbara Taylor, Esq., Staff Attorney
Barbara came to ILAP in March, 2006, after previously working for ILAP as an ILAP intake volunteer and later as an intern through a Maine Association of Public Interest Lawyers Fellowship in the summer of 2003. Barbara graduated cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law in 2005. Before joining ILAP, Barbara clerked for a year with the Maine Superior Court and worked briefly at Legal Services for the Elderly. Barbara also has her Masters from Columbia Teachers College and was involved in education on various levels prior to switching to a law career. Barbara is admitted to the Maine Bar.
Jennifer Bailey, Esq., Staff Attorney
Jennifer has been with ILAP since January, 2008. Jennifer received a law degree from New York University in 1994 and a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University. Jennifer has more than 12 years of experience working on behalf of immigrants including for ProBAR in Texas, for Human Rights Watch, and for Jesuit Refugee Services in Washington, D.C. Jennifer is admitted to the New York State Bar and her practice in Maine is limited to Immigration and Nationality matters. She is fluent in Spanish.
Muna Hassan, Paralegal
Muna joined ILAP in July 2010 to manage the application assistance component of ILAP’s Immigration Clinic. Originally from Somalia, she immigrated to the U.S. as a child. She is a 2009 graduate of Bowdoin College, where she majored in Government and Legal Studies, and spent her junior year at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Prior to joining ILAP, Muna was an intake volunteer with ILAP, and worked for Census 2010. Muna is fluent in Somali and is proficient in Arabic.
Andi Summers, Paralegal/Detention Paralegal
Andi joined ILAP’s staff in July, 2008 as the Legal Program Associate. In September 2009, Andi became ILAP's paralegal assisting ILAP’s attorneys with full representation, and providing assistance to individuals detained by Immigration and their families. Andi has her BA from Brown University and received her Masters of Science in Education from the University of Maine in 2000. Andi came to ILAP after working in the teaching field for over eight years, most recently as an adult ESL teacher in Lima, Peru and prior to that at the Mast Landing School in Freeport, Maine. Andi is fluent in Spanish.
Rachel Watson, Legal Program Associate/Volunteer Coordinator
Rachel is a 2009 graduate of Colby College, and joined ILAP in August 2009. after previously serving as an ILAP intern. Rachel also was a student intern at the Irish Immigration Center in Boston, spent a semester in Quito, Ecuador, and has worked with Latinos as an ESL tutor. She majored in Spanish and Latin American studies, and is fluent in Spanish.
Hayden Anderson, CFRE, Development Director
Hayden joined ILAP in December, 2009. He has been doing development work since 2000, most recently as the development officer for the College of Science & Engineering at Seattle University in Seattle, WA. Hayden holds a BA from Amherst College and an MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame, all in Philosophy.
Emma Lockwood, Office and Development Associate.
Emma works with ILAP part-time, providing critically needed office administrative support, and helping keep our development efforts organized. Emma is a graduate of Tufts University, and brought to ILAP over thirteen years of experience working in human resources and retail. Emma is an immigrant from England and understands the importance of ILAP’s work helping immigrants navigate U.S. immigration laws.