Megan . Hope
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
Megan Hope, MSW, is the Social Service Project Director at the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN). She oversees the Social Service Project's provision of behavioral health services, legal case support, and release planning to particularly vulnerable adults in immigration detention and some clients of RMIAN's Children's Program. Megan previously conducted legal orientation presentations at the Aurora detention center and is a Department of Justice fully accredited legal representative. For close to six years, she served as coordinator of RMIAN's Human Trafficking Project. Megan has worked with immigrant communities since 1995, including as a former staff member and current member of the board of directors of Annunciation House, Inc. in El Paso, Texas; migrant advocate, immigration paralegal, and grant writer with Legal Aid of Western Missouri's Migrant Farmworker Project; former board president and clinic coordinator of the Kansas City Worker Justice Center; and activist with other immigrant and worker rights organizations. She is a co-author of recent article on self-care for social workers and lawyers working with detained immigrants with serious mental published in the journal Social Work. She has a MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Kansas and MSW from the University of Denver.
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