Book Club – February – Kathy O’Leary

We invite you to join our “Book Club.” Our guest speaker is Kathy O’Leary from Pax Christi NJ. Ms. O’Leary has involved with deportation defense campaigns and addressing immigration detention concerns, including the proposed ICE facility in Roxbury.

More About Our Guest Speaker, 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 2000s. She has served as the coordinator for the New Jersey region for nearly 15 years. In 2022 she was named an “Ambassador of Peace”; and in 2023 she was elected to Pax Christi USA’s National Council. 

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 has represented Pax Christi in a number of coalitions including NJ Advocates for Immigrant Detainees, NJ Prison Justice Watch and the Interfaith Campaign for Just Closures. She was previously a member of the board of First Friends of NJ, where she served for a time as its vice president.

The Book Club will begin at 6 pm and wrap up no later than 8 pm. Our intention is to also offer a Zoom option with the link being provided via email prior to the meeting. While this Book Club is hosted by the Roxbury Township Democratic Committee, it is open to all.

Registration is required and can be found here or by clicking the link below. 

Contact us at RoxburyDems@gmail.com with any questions.