Meet the Happy Warriors of Religious Liberty
William P. Mumma is the President of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberties. Mumma generously provides leadership to the Becket Fund while managing...
Kristina Arriaga
Executive Director
Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz is our omni-talented fearless Executive Director. You may have read stories about her pre-Becket Fund days in Reader’s Digest or...
Kyle joined the Becket Fund as senior counsel in January 2012, after serving for three years as appellate chief of the Louisiana Department of Justice...
Eric Rassbach
Deputy General Counsel
Eric Rassbach is National Litigation Director at the Becket Fund and has served since 2004. In his practice he has represented people and institutions from...
Luke Goodrich
Deputy General Counsel
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 joined The Becket Fund after graduating from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she worked as a student attorney with the Harvard Legal Aid...
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 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 joined The Becket Fund in 2007. Since then, she has litigated a wide array of religious liberty cases on the appellate and U.S. Supreme Court...
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’s work at the Becket Fund includes domestic and international litigation. Diana received her J.D. from American University’s Washington College of...
Alan Hurst
Legal Academic Fellow
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...
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...
Asma Uddin
Attorney, Legal Training Institute
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...
Tina Ramirez
Director of International and Government Relations
As Director of International and Government Relations, Tina Ramirez oversees all outreach to Congress and the various executive agencies, as well as represents...
Sarah Schlesinger
International and Government Relations Associate
As an International and Government Relations Associate, Sarah works closely with Congress, executive agencies, and NGOs on both domestic and international...
Emily Hardman
Communications Director
Emily joined the Becket Fund in 2011. Prior to her work as Communications and Donor Relations Director, she obtained her law degree at the J. Reuben Clark Law...
Jeff Gasser
Communications Assistant
While obtaining a liberal arts degree from Southern Virginia University, Jeff Gasser worked closely with investigative reporter Jeff Benedict, performing...
Maria Montserrat Alvarado
Director of Operations
Maria Montserrat Alvarado came on board in the Fall of 2009 to help run the Voices Symposium Conference in Mexico City. We quickly realized she knows how to...
Julie Riggs
Development Director
Julie re-joined The Becket Fund in the fall of 2011. Julie was with BFRL from 1996-98 during which time she launched the very first Canterbury Medal Dinner...
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...
Laura Keivel
Development Associate
Who knew that marching band led to a career in development? Laura Keivel brought some Midwestern oomph when she joined the Becket Fund development team in...
Pamela Callahan
Development Assistant
A Development Assistant studying urban revitalization? That would be Pamela Callahan. While helping to advance the Becket Fund’s development programs, Pamela...
Katie Baker
Executive Assistant
Katie Baker hails from West Michigan and graduated from Calvin College in May 2011 with a B.A. in English and a minor in Political Science. While in college,...
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....
Christian Burset studies law and history at Yale University, where he is an Articles Editor on the Yale Journal of International Law and an Editor on the Yale...
Kenneth Townsend joined the Becket Fund as a legal intern in summer 2011 and continues to work as a Legal Fellow. Kenneth is currently pursuing a joint...
Angela Wu
Director, Becket Institute
The question, ‘Where in the world is International Law Director, Angela C. Wu?’ is one frequently heard around town. Recently Angela could be found...
Before joining the Becket Fund in 2008, Scott served as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the George W. Bush administration. At the...
Kevin J. "Seamus" Hasson
Founder
Before founding the Becket Fund in 1994, Hasson was an attorney at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where he focused on religious liberty...
