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Management

William P. Mumma
President

William P. Mumma

William (Bill) Mumma has served as President of the Becket Fund since 2011. After graduating from Georgetown School of Foreign Service and obtaining his MBA...

Kristina Arriaga
Executive Director

Kristina Arriaga

Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz developed her lifelong passion for freedom from her exiled Cuban American parents. Executive Director since 2010, she leads a team...

Counsel

Kyle Duncan
General Counsel

Kyle Duncan

Kyle joined the Becket Fund as General Counsel in January 2012, after serving as Solicitor General and appellate chief of the Louisiana Department of Justice...

Eric Rassbach
Deputy General Counsel

Eric Rassbach

Eric Rassbach is Deputy General Counsel at the Becket Fund and has served since 2004. In his practice he has represented people and institutions from many...

Luke Goodrich
Deputy General Counsel

Luke Goodrich

Luke Goodrich joined the Becket Fund as Legal Counsel in 2008. Since then, he has represented religious organizations and individuals in a wide array of...

Lori Windham
Senior Counsel

Lori Windham

Lori Windham is Senior Counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. She has extensive litigation experience, representing a variety of religious groups at...

Eric Baxter
Senior Counsel

Eric Baxter

Eric Baxter joined The Becket Fund as Senior Counsel in 2011 after working pro bono supporting Becket Fund clients in significant religious liberty cases in...

Mark Rienzi
Senior Counsel

Mark Rienzi

Mark joined the Becket team in 2011 and splits his time an assistant professor at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. Mark teaches...

Hannah Smith
Senior Counsel

Hannah Smith

Senior Counsel Hannah Smith joined The Becket Fund in 2007 following two clerkships at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito,...

Eric Kniffin
Counsel

Eric Kniffin

Eric Kniffin joined the Becket Fund in 2009. Since then, Eric has been active in defending the rights of religion and conscience in the workplace. Before...

Diana Verm
Counsel

Diana Verm

Diana Verm has been a lawyer at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty since 2009. Diana’s work has included domestic and international litigation, including...

Asma Uddin
Counsel

Asma Uddin

Asma T. Uddin joined The Becket Fund in 2009 after practicing commercial litigation at prestigious national law firms for several years. She is a 2005 graduate...

Adele Keim
Counsel

Adele Keim

Adèle Keim joined the Becket Fund as Legal Counsel in 2012 after spending four years as an associate in the appellate practice at Winston & Strawn in...

Daniel Blomberg
Counsel

Daniel Blomberg

Daniel Blomberg is legal counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Before joining Becket, he clerked for Chief Judge Alice M. Batchelder of the U.S....

Joshua Hawley
Of Counsel

Joshua Hawley

Joshua Hawley joined the Becket team in 2011 following several years as an appellate litigator at Hogan Lovells US LLP, in Washington, D.C. At Hogan, Joshua...

Congressional and International Relations

Tina Ramirez
Director of International and Government Relations

Tina Ramirez

As Director of International and Government Relations, Tina Ramirez oversees all outreach to Congress and the various executive agencies, directs Becket’s...

Sarah Schlesinger
International Program Manager

Sarah Schlesinger

As the International Program Manager, Sarah works on legal and educational programming and policy for the Becket Fund’s work around the world. She manages...

Katie Moore
Congressional and International Assistant

Katie Moore

Originally from Minnesota, Katie graduated in May 2012 from Taylor University in Indiana with a B.A. in Political Science and International Studies. She has a...

Communications

Emily Hardman
Communications Director

Emily Hardman

Emily Hardman joined the Becket Fund as Communications Director in October of 2011, merging her legal and communication experience to found the new department....

Jeff Gasser
Communications Associate

Jeff Gasser

While obtaining a liberal arts degree from Southern Virginia University, Jeff Gasser worked closely with investigative reporter Jeff Benedict, performing...

Stephen Siao
Communications Assistant

Stephen Siao

Stephen Siao joined The Becket Fund in January 2013, a month after graduating from Vanderbilt University. Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Stephen lived for...

Operations

Maria Montserrat Alvarado
Director of Development

Maria Montserrat Alvarado

Maria Montserrat Alvarado came on board in the Fall of 2009 to help run the Voices Symposium Conference in Mexico City. She was elevated to her current...

Julie Riggs
Director of Advancement

Julie Riggs

Julie re-joined The Becket Fund in the fall of 2011. Julie was with Becket Fund from 1996-98 during which time she launched the very first Canterbury Medal...

Michelle Marston
Development Executive

Michelle Marston

Michelle joined the Becket Fund in 2012, twenty years after coming to Washington from her native New Jersey to work on Capitol Hill. Over the course of her...

Katie Mumma
Research Analyst

Katie Mumma

Originally from New Jersey, Katie Mumma joined the Becket Fund as a Research Analyst in February of 2013. She graduated from Princeton University in 2011 with...

Marie Peralta
Legal and Operations Manager

Marie Peralta

Marie Peralta is the Carmen Sandiego of legal assistants. Her pursuit of a journalism degree at Brigham Young University took her to Japan, the United Arab...

Brian Sando
Development Assistant

Brian Sando

Brian Sando is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio who attended Miami University, graduating with a B.A. in History and a minor in Political Science. Brian moved to...

Lee Marsh
Legal Management Assistant

Lee Marsh

Lee was born and raised in the great city of Bowling Green, Ohio, where his first jobs included sweeping public parking lots and deftly mowing between...

Lucy Feil
Development Assistant

Lucy Feil

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Lucy Feil graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in May 2011 with a degree in Liberal Arts. During college, she spent a summer as...

Sarah Kerner
Executive and Development Assistant

Sarah Kerner

Originally from Rochester, NY, Sarah joined the Becket Fund in January of 2013. She graduated from Wheaton College in 2012 where she earned a B.A. in Political...

Mary-Neven Brockway
Executive Assistant

Mary-Neven Brockway

Originally from Michigan, Mary Neven Brockway began working at the Becket Fund in January of 2013. She graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in...

Becket Fellows

Ashley McGuire
Neuhaus Fellow

Ashley McGuire

Father Richard John Neuhaus was a beloved religious figure known for his ecumenism and bold defense of religion’s rightful place in the public square....

Alan Hurst
Legal Academic Fellow

Alan Hurst

Alan joined the Becket Fund as a legal academic fellow in Fall 2011. Since then, he has helped with litigation while working on law review articles and other...

Angela Wu
International Legal Fellow, Becket Institute

Angela Wu

Angela Wu Howard is the International Legal Fellow at the Becket Institute, an academic project of the Becket Fund. She has testified, lectured, and worked on...

Megan Donley
Becket Fellow

Megan Donley

Megan E.G. Donley has been with the Becket Fund since 1998 working in the communications and development departments. She is a graduate of Boston College where...

Founder

Kevin J. "Seamus" Hasson
Founder

Kevin J. "Seamus" Hasson

Before founding the Becket Fund in 1994, Hasson was an attorney at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where he focused on religious liberty...