Clearinghouse Review to Name New Staff Attorney--Legal Editor Margaret Becker Leaves

A new legal editor–staff attorney will join the staff of Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy after the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law concludes its search this month. The position is half-time, and telecommuting is an option. See the job announcement.

Margaret Becker, who had been legal editor–staff attorney of the Clearinghouse Review for five years, has taken a staff attorney position with the Staten Island office of Legal Services of New York to concentrate on predatory lending issues. Before joining the Shriver Center, Becker was a staff attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin.

When Becker joined the Shriver Center as a legal editor in 2000, she became Clearinghouse Review’s third telecommuting legal editor. Catherine Dorn Schreiber, who lives in Redlands, California, was the first, beginning the year before. Marcia Henry, telecommuting from her home in Oakland, California, joined the editorial staff soon after. Becker telecommuted from Wisconsin and later from New York. Working from the Shriver Center, in Chicago, are Ilze Hirsh, the editor; Crystal Ashley, a legal editor–staff attorney; and Edwin P. Abaya, the associate editor. As a national poverty law and policy journal, Clearinghouse Review benefits from the perspectives that legal editors in various locations bring to editorial planning and from the personal contact that they have with poverty law advocates in their areas.

Becker, with Ashley, coordinated the upcoming May–June 2006 Clearinghouse Review special issue on what the federal government should be doing to redress poverty. Becker also coordinated the July-August 2003 Clearinghouse Review special issue on economic development strategies for individuals and communities. (Single copies of the July–August 2003 special issue are available at $25 a copy.)