Matthew Malec

Matthew joined Becket in 2025. He works with the Research and Communications teams assisting with data analysis, social media, and other quantitative and qualitative research.

Before joining Becket, Matthew was a Research Assistant at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Special Projects Coordinator at Echelon Insights. He graduated summa cum laude from Boston College from Boston College with a B.A. In Political Science.

In his free time, Matthew enjoys being active, traveling, and learning more about political philosophy or theology.

Corrinne Carlson

Corrinne joined Becket in 2024. She works with both the Development and Government Affairs teams, tracking and analyzing legislative changes, organizing data, and conducting research.

Corrinne graduated from the University of Notre Dame, majoring in the Program of Liberal Studies with minors in Constitutional Studies, Theology, and Medieval Studies. While at Notre Dame, she was also Tocqueville Fellow in the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and completed an internship in the U.S. Senate.  After college, she worked in research and government affairs at Parents Defending Education, a nonprofit focused on parental rights in K-12 education. She is currently a fellow with the Public Interest Fellowship.

Originally from Southern California, Corrinne is often daydreaming about her next trip back to the beach. Outside of work, she enjoys country music, watching baseball, hiking, and reading.

Mary Clare Cameron

Mary Clare joined The Becket Fund in 2024 as a Fellow to support the firm’s strategic research and government affairs work. She keeps tabs on legislation and federal regulations that may impact Becket’s clients and helps oversee the annual Religious Freedom Index.

At Notre Dame, Mary Clare majored in the Program of Liberal Studies, an interdisciplinary Great Books curriculum, and minored in Constitutional Studies. As a Kennedy Research Scholar, she has defended her research to faculty at Durham University, partnered with the RAND Corporation to analyze the economic effects of refugees abroad, and conducted archival research at the University of Cambridge for her senior thesis. Prior to joining Becket, Mary Clare interned at her local Catholic Charities branch to support their immigration and asylum legal team.

When she is not burrowing her nose into a book, Mary Clare can often be found practicing piano, scouring the city for live jazz, trying her hand at poetry, or strolling the city green spaces.

Levi Brown

Levi earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. While in law school, Levi was vice president of the Christian Legal Society.

Levi received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Arkansas. In his free time, Levi enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter and playing the banjo.

Angela Wu Howard

Angela Wu Howard is a Senior Law Fellow at Becket. She formerly served as Becket’s International Law Director.

Angela obtained a D. Phil. from University of Oxford, a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School; a B.A. with honors in Modern Intellectual History from Northwestern University, and a D.E.S. in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she was a Fulbright Fellow. She clerked in San Francisco for the Honorable William W Schwarzer (sitting by designation on federal circuit courts of appeal), worked for Oxfam America in Boston, and served as a negotiations consultant on civil society issues to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. She has also served on the governing Bureau of the United Nations NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Angela was litigating hostile corporate takeovers and political asylum cases with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York when Becket called. Her current work is based at the University of Oxford, where she is researching legal philosophy applied to religious freedom.

Angela speaks English fluently and French, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese to varying degrees of competency. She enjoys dictionaries and design.