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By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged
A few years ago, while working on a profile of Christian attorney Lori Windham, I interviewed her boss at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.
I found Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado, then Becket’s vice president and chief operating officer, personable and engaging.
I remember that Alvarado praised Windham’s balance as “an impressive professional, a devoted mother and a beautiful Christian.
“I’ve worked with her for over a decade at the Becket Fund,” Alvarado told me in 2022. “She had a path similar to me, where we started as interns and kind of made our way up the ranks. And she’s a great leader, a great example of what it is to be an integrated professional, someone who takes their job very seriously, excels beautifully, manages to balance piety and technique, as I like to call it, and performs that way at the highest level, in the highest courts in the land.”
Alvarado was reflecting on Windham’s success arguing cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.
But I was reminded of the conversation because Alvarado herself made international headlines this week.
This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.
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