Kristina Arriaga
Kristina Arriaga | |
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| Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom | |
| In office May 18, 2016 – November 15, 2019 | |
| Appointed by | Paul Ryan |
| Preceded by | Robert P. George |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Matthew Bucholz |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Marquette University (BA) Georgetown University (MA) University of Oxford |
Kristina Arriaga de Bucholz is an American First Amendment and human rights advocate, former nonprofit executive, and diplomat who served as the executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty before being appointed in 2016 by Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Paul Ryan to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, where she was elected vice chair.
Her tenure at Becket was notable for the firm's successful representation of a number of clients in high profile religious liberty cases that reached the Supreme Court of the United States, including the landmark decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014).
In 2020, she was appointed as a trustee of the Oversight Board, an independent body established by Meta to make content moderation decisions on the social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Since 2019, she has also been the CEO of Intrinsic, a public relations consulting firm.