Margaret Brown Vega

Survivor Advancement Senior Paralegal

Since 2016 Margaret has worked in a range of ways to support immigrants. She has done extensive advocacy work toward ending immigration detention, and supporting new arrivals to the U.S. in navigating legal and social needs. For three years she taught anthropology classes at the local university before becoming a case manager at a refugee resettlement agency. She helped build services for refugees, and coordinated case management services for asylum seekers and other immigrants. She volunteered as a partially accredited DOJ representative with a local non-profit, working mostly on asylum cases.

Margaret has deep familial roots in northern Mexico/south Texas/southern New Mexico. In 2008 she received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For nearly twenty years, she was an academic and professional archaeologist. She left academia to do direct service work, and is committed to helping provide free support to those who need it