About ME

Hello there! My name is Sheila.  I’m a very new Registered Nurse searching for my first job/taking a break from searching for my first job.  This seemed like the perfect time in life to take an adventure-with-a-purpose. 

I first became interested in immigration issues when I was working in a health clinic for low-income clients and an undocumented gentlemen came in seeking services.  Although this clinic’s mission was to provide care to the poor and marginalized, this man was turned away because he didn’t have a social security number and thus wouldn’t register in the clinic’s computer system.  As he left the clinic, downtrodden but still with hope in his eyes, I realized that he was just one member of a huge group of the population that is turned away, marginalized, and overlooked each day despite being full of intelligence, character, and capabilities, and solely for the lack of some 9 digit ID number.

Or maybe I became interested in immigration when my friend Peter simply asked me to come to a New Sanctuary Movement meeting.  Sometimes that’s all it takes…

Or maybe it was when I thought of the issues logically and realized how insane it is that a country composed predominately of immigrants can be so forgetful of its recent past and so quick to repeat past mistakes.