Roger McCrummen, Managing Attorney and founder of the McCrummen Immigration Law Group first registered Asylum Clinic Kansas City ("ACKC") as a nonprofit organization in the state of Missouri in 2015 after years of struggling with how best to respond to the vast unmet legal needs of asylum seekers in the area.

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With over 30 years legal experience, including over 20 years as an immigration attorney, Roger K. McCrummen is the managing partner of the McCrummen Immigration Law Group. Although he has experience in family and humanitarian based immigration law, his primary focus is on employment based immigration law, including temporary work visas; employment based permanent residence; and employer compliance issues.

Josh Sweeden is Professor of Church and Society at Nazarene Theological Seminary (Kansas City), a graduate school committed to preparing students for service as clergy, community leaders, and agents of reconciliation in the world. Prior to his current role, Josh served as CAO/Dean of the Faculty at Nazarene Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor of Theology and Richard B. Parker Co-chair in Wesleyan Theology at Portland Seminary, and Instructor of Religion at Eastern Nazarene College. 

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Josh brings to the ACKC board professional expertise and engagement with theological education and faith-based nonprofit organizations. He has taught theology for 20 years and served in education administrative roles for 8. His work with faith-based nonprofits has most directly engaged urban community development and includes additional experiences in church-based international relief and development. His theological formation and personal/professional experiences undergird his commitment to marginalized, dispossessed, and displaced persons.

Andrea Perdomo-Morales, LSCSW, LCSW

Andrea Perdomo-Morales is the Program Officer responsible for administering grants, informing grantmaking strategies, and engaging the community to identify opportunities that align with the foundation’s mission to advance equity in health coverage and care.

With over twenty years of experience as a dedicated social work professional, Perdomo-Morales has focused on improving the lives of under-resourced and underserved populations. Born in Guatemala, she currently resides in Wyandotte County, Kansas. As a proud first-generation Latina and the first college graduate in her family, she holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Kansas.

Her career reflects a strong commitment to working with diverse communities and fostering collaboration to create meaningful change. Most recently, she served as the Chief Health Equity Officer for Vibrant Health, a federally qualified health center located in Wyandotte County. During her tenure, she led programs in behavioral health, community health work, outreach, and school-based initiatives.

Perdomo-Morales's passion for advancing health equity has driven her deep engagement in community initiatives. She has been a co-chair and health advisor for the Communities Concerned for Immigrants and Refugees (CCIR) network, a program funded by the REACH Healthcare Foundation, for the past seven years. Additionally, she serves on the Kansas Behavioral Health Sciences Regulatory Board, completed the Emerging Leaders program sponsored by the Central Exchange, and is an alumna of the Centurions Leadership Program.

Veronica is an empathetic leader and relentless advocate who coaches others in human-centered design, equipping them with the confidence, skills, and knowledge to launch their own ideas. Through personal experience, she deeply understands the impact community programs and educational services have on families—particularly those in areas with limited access. This understanding fuels her work. Alongside her partner, Katie Kimbrell, Veronica has established programs that equip community leaders, teachers and young people with an entrepreneurial spirit and human-centered problem-solving approach. She is committed to creating systemic change by giving decision-makers, educators, and organizations more human-centric ways to tackle their challenges.

Valerie is an experienced immigration attorney who has devoted her legal career to helping immigrants and their families. Since 2011, Valerie has helped hundreds of people from all over the world obtain legal status in the United States. Her practice is dedicated to representing individuals and their families at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Department of State, Executive Office of Immigration Review (Immigration Court), as well as at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA). She is the owner of The Law Office of Valerie K. Sprout, LLC which was established in 2021.

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Valerie is involved in advocacy efforts through the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) and pro-bono volunteering opportunities such as providing legal services to refugees at the South Texas Family Residential Facility in Dilley, Texas.

Brice has a nationwide practice defending clients in product liability, construction, insurance, commercial and general liability disputes in state and federal courts. He drafts motions and defends clients in related hearings involving a wide variety of issues, including dispositive and non-dispositive motions. He researches complex legal issues, conducts depositions, including lay and expert witnesses, and participates in mediations and arbitrations. Brice represents a broad range of clients, including pharmaceutical companies, component manufacturers, senior living facilities, health and wellness companies and insurance companies. 

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Before attending law school, Brice played NCAA Division I basketball for Creighton University and later for professional leagues in Europe and the Middle East. He now channels the dedication and discipline that helped him succeed in basketball toward serving his clients’ needs effectively and efficiently. 

Martha Gershun (www.marthagershun.com) has over 40 years of leadership experience in Fortune 500 corporations, start-up ventures, and non-profit organizations, retiring as Executive Director of Jackson County CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) in 2017. As Principal of
MG Consulting, she provides board development, leadership transition, and strategy consulting for non-profit clients around the country. 

In 2018 Gershun donated a kidney at the Mayo Clinic to a woman she read about in the newspaper. She co-authored Kidney to Share (Cornell University Press, May 2021) to explore the scientific discoveries that made transplantation relatively safe and effective and the barriers that make it difficult and expensive to donate a kidney. She has spoken to more than 40 transplant clinics, medical schools, and ethics clinics about living organ donation and served on the boards of the National Kidney Foundation and the Kidney Transplant Collaborative.

Gershun has volunteered with a number of community organizations and currently serves on the board of Asylum Clinic KC; the finance committee for SAVE, Inc. and Teresa’s Place; and Trustee for the Greater Kansas City Jewish Community Foundation.  She is a private pilot, taking lessons at the Lee’s Summit Regional Airport to become current after a 33-year hiatus to raise a family.
Gershun graduated with a B.A. cum laude from Harvard University and holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. She earned a graduate diploma in Economics from the University of Stirling, Scotland, where she was a Rotary International Fellow. She lives in Fairway, KS with her husband, Don Goldman, and their beloved dog Lilah. Their daughter Sarah lives in Northern Virginia, and their son Nathan and daughter-in-law Bridget live in Minneapolis with their incomparable 4-year-old twin grandsons.

Laura Bond has practiced law in the Kansas City area for more than thirty years—primarily representing hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare-related entities in contracting, corporate, regulatory, and compliance issues. However, she has focused much of her volunteer time on issues facing immigrants and refugees. 

As a board member for the REACH Healthcare Foundation, Laura served as a Health Care Advisor for Communities Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees and participated on the Steering Committee that developed the Welcoming Plan for the Greater Kansas City Chamber’s Welcoming KC initiative to enhance Kansas City’s workforce by making it a welcoming place for immigrants. She has worked at the pro bono legal clinic for asylum-seeking women and children detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, TX and volunteered with Interfaith Welcome Coalition in San Antonio, TX. 

Laura also coordinates an immigration ministry through St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church that has provided support (including donations and accompaniment) to asylum seekers and financial support and mentoring for Afghan refugee families.

Patricia Perez Bellew- M.H.S. CCC-SLP is an ASHA certified Speech Language Pathologist with a master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from The University of Missouri- Columbia. Patricia immigrated from Colombia as a young child. Her experiences as a minority and multilingual immigrant have driven her passion for advocacy for children from diverse and multilingual backgrounds. She uses her expertise to support these young students in getting the proper services and help young, underrepresented families navigate the educational system.

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Patricia is bilingual Spanish speaking pediatric speech-language pathologist with nearly 20 years of experience in school, rehabilitation, and early intervention settings. Currently she maintains her own practice serving and evaluating young children, with a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse populations and second language acquisition, serving children and families in the natural environments of their homes or schools. Patricia divides her time between her practice and working for the Olathe Public Schools in Kansas, serving the education and communication needs of culturally and linguistically diverse preschool students in the Head Start program.

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Patricia invests in her local and school communities by mentoring, training, and supervising Spanish speaking and bilingual clinical students to educate the next generation of clinically competent speech-language pathologists on best practices in the field. She also currently serves on her children’s school’s Parent Teacher Organization and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

Ryan Kelly is a Partner at Brown Immigration Law, where he leads a forward-thinking practice providing high-quality representation to corporate and individual clients across a range of immigration matters. He has extensive experience with employment-based immigration, as well as creative litigation strategies such as mandamus actions to resolve delays.

Beyond his legal practice, Ryan has a strong record of community service. He has served as a Commissioner on the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights and previously provided legal support to unaccompanied minors in the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s shelter system. His volunteer work in election protection, emergency legal clinics, and mentorship reflects his commitment to equity and access to justice.

Ryan holds a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and graduated summa cum laude from Washburn University, where he was Business School Valedictorian and a three-time national debate champion.