Meet Kathy Ogle, a long-time volunteer on Amica Center’s jail visits. Kathy is a partially retired Spanish-English conference interpreter, who started volunteering 10 years ago. She has regularly participated in visits to both Farmville Detention Center and Caroline Detention Facility and has provided live interpretation for a few cases. On jail visits, she helps conduct … Continued

Samantha A. Miller is a volunteer at Amica Center and an attorney with Zuckerman Spaeder. “Recently, I joined [Amica Center’s] staff and volunteers on a trip to an immigration detention facility in Caroline County, Virginia. Seeing how our country detains people caught up in the immigration system wasn’t easy for me. Immigration detention is, essentially, … Continued

Meet Lenny Tejeda, a volunteer translator with Amica Center. Lenny is currently a private wealth legal assistant at Holland and Knight in Massachusetts. His experience in the legal field, along with his passion for immigrant rights, makes him the perfect fit to translate all types of documents—birth certificates, declarations, letters of support, and news articles—to … Continued