Mayesha Alam and David Gideon Crockett Jr. are to be married Sept. 23 at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Tahsin I. Alam, a cousin of the bride who became a Universal Life minister for the event, is to officiate.
The bride, 30, is studying for a Ph.D. in political science at Yale. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received a master’s degree in international relations. She is the author of “Women and Transitional Justice: Progress and Persistent Challenges in Retributive and Restorative Processes” (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014). She was also awarded the Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2017.
She is the daughter of Shahina Awal and Masud Ul Alam of Toronto. The bride’s father, a mechanical engineer, retired as a projects director on construction of pulp and paper mills for Iyinisiw Management, an engineering firm in British Columbia.
The groom, 32, works at the Department of Financial Services in New York, where he investigates financial fraud in the banking and insurance industries. He is an Excelsior fellow, appointed by the Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He graduated from Yale, and received a law degree from Columbia.
He is the son of Amelia R. Crockett of Atlanta and the late Mr. Crockett Sr. His father was a lawyer in private practice in Atlanta.
The groom is a distant relative of Davy Crockett, the famed frontiersman and politician who died on March 6, 1836, while helping to defend the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, against overwhelming Mexican forces, during the Texas Revolution.
The couple met at a college Model United Nations conference at Yale in 2006, where both participated in mock trials.
