Kathy O’Leary

Kathy O’Leary has been a member of Pax Christi USA, which represents the international Catholic peace movement in the United States, since the early 2000's. In 2022 she was appointed an "ambassador of peace" and was elected to the National Council in 2023. She also currently serves as the region coordinator for New Jersey. She has been focusing on the issue of immigration detention since 2007. She has written and contributed to reports, articles, and op-eds on ICE detention; organized local, state-wide, and regional protests and vigils; and worked on deportation defense campaigns. She was previously a member of the board of First Friends of NJ & NY, an organization that visits people and provides material support to people in ICE detention where she served for a time as its vice president.