Staff
Fr Aloysius Mowe SJ
Director of JRS
Malaysian-born Aloysius came to JRS Australia from the Malaysia-Singapore Jesuit Region at the end of 2010. After running the Jesuit candidate program in his home country, Fr Mowe spent two years undertaking Arabic studies in Egypt. His theological studies took place in London and Oxford, and he stayed on in Oxford to pursue research in Islamic history and law. He has worked in the fields of interfaith dialogue, public policy and Islam, and spent a year as a Woodstock visiting fellow at Georgetown University before coming to Australia. Aloysius joined JRS on 1 February 2011.
Dr Maryanne Loughry RSM
Associate Director
Maryanne is a Sister of Mercy and has been associated with JRS since 1986, working as a psychologist and trainer in Indochinese refugee camps in the Philippines and Vietnamese Detention Centres in Hong Kong. She has conducted research, programme evaluations and humanitarian training in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, South East Asia and the UK. Dr Loughry is a visiting research scholar at the Centre for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College and the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Prior to this she was the Pedro Arrupe tutor at the University of Oxford Refugee Studies Centre. She is a member of the Australian Government's advisory council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution and serves on several international boards, including the academic board of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (GCMHP) and the Governing Committee of the International Catholic Migration Committee (ICMC). She is currently researching the psychosocial effects of climate-induced displacement in the Pacific, and was made a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in 2010.
Louise Stack
Project Co-Ordinator
Louise assists in the development and management of a JRS-run housing project for asylum seekers. She is a lawyer who has practised in Australia and the United Kingdom and has a Masters of Social Development in Refugees and Forced Migration from UNSW. She has previously been a volunteer for the JRS and for Austcare, and has also spent time in Tanzania as a volunteer for a local orphanage.
Cecilia Silva
Project Assistant
Cecilia holds an education degree from her native country, Peru, where she worked with various communities in the field of the arts, particularly in street theatre. After moving to Australia two decades ago, she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts and further pursued her interest s in education and community arts. Her interest in the arts as a powerful tool for healing has increased since completing a post graduate degree in Transcultural Mental Health.
Sr Kathleen Moran
Project Assistant
Kathleen is a Sister of Mercy and has worked mostly in the Ballarat Diocese as a teacher, parish administrator, pastoral associate and, most recently, as the manager of a house for short-term accommodation. She has also worked as an independent person with the Victoria Police, and been a contact person with Towards Healing, Victoria. Kathleen's work with refugees and displaced people began when she helped provide accommodation in Ballarat, and with her visits to the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in Melbourne. Her move to Sydney in November, 2010 has given her greater opportunities to walk with these inspiring, courageous people.
Samuel Fuller
Case Worker
Samuel assists unaccompanied minors in their transition from being received into JRS care and beyond, into their next stage of life. He has had a varied background from banking and finance in London to NGO work in Cambodia. With a degree in Communication Studies and a Diploma in Counselling, he is keen to utalise his business and educational background, to further assist forcibly displaced persons.
Kim Mandelik
Office Manager
Originally from New Zealand, Kim moved to Australia 16 years ago and is now an Australian citizen. The mother-of-three has worked in administrative positions for several businesses, and joined JRS in February 2009. 'I have have found it to be very rewarding, and met the most wonderful people who continue to inspire me with what they have been through and how they face adversity.'
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