Hannah Jessie Diamond and Samuel Raphael Feldman are to be married Jan. 20 at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan. Jon Hanson, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion and was a professor of the couple at Harvard Law School, is to officiate.
The couple met in 2013 at Harvard, from which they each received a law degree.
Ms. Diamond, 29, is a public defender at the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. She graduated from Oberlin College.
She is the daughter of Shelley J. Sherman of Great Neck, N.Y., and the late David A. Diamond. Until 1990, the bride’s mother was a deputy council at the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct in Manhattan. She is on the national board of Hadassah, the women’s Zionist organization of America, and Young Judaea, a Zionist youth movement with programs for Jewish youth, both in Manhattan. The bride’s father was a law professor at Hofstra in Hempstead, N.Y., where he taught civil procedure, education law, trial advocacy and family law.
Mr. Feldman, 31, is a public defender at Appellate Advocates, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan that has contracts with the city to defend cases involving low-income clients in Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
He is the son of Natalie Wexler and James A. Feldman of Washington. His mother is the author of “The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System — and How to Fix It” (Avery, 2019) and an author of “The Writing Revolution: Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades” (Jossey-Bass, 2017). She is a senior contributor, focusing on education, at Forbes.com. She is the chairwoman of the board of the Writing Revolution, a nonprofit group in Manhattan that promotes and provides training in a method of writing instruction. His father is a litigator in private practice, who has argued 51 cases before the United States Supreme Court. From 1989 to 2006, he was an assistant to the solicitor general at the Department of Justice in Washington. He is on the boards of the Forward, a nonprofit publication in Manhattan focusing on news and topics of interest to the American Jewish community; and the Washington National Opera.
