Megan Sheffield is an immigration lawyer and was previously director of the Immigration Project at the Equal Justice Center (EJC) in Austin, Texas. Her practice focused on humanitarian and family-based relief, including DACA, advance parole, labor deferred action (DALE), T visas, U visas, VAWA, SIJS, adjustment of status, citizenship and naturalization. Megan began her work with the EJC as an Equal Justice Works Emerson fellow, conducting assisted pro se DACA clinics throughout the state of Texas. Previously, she was a UT Law Faculty Glickman fellow at Casa Marianella, an immigrant homeless shelter and resource center in Austin, TX, where she primarily represented survivors of violence and worked to expand access to SIJS. Megan earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where she participated in the Immigration Clinic for four semesters and was a Pro Bono Scholar.  She attended Pennsylvania State University for undergrad and studied abroad at Institute Tecnológico de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier France. Megan is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.