Natalie Avis Pitcher and Samuel Austin Sistare Clark were married May 18 at their home in Annapolis, Md. Judge Janet Bond Arterton of the United States District Court in New Haven officiated.
The couple met in 2014 at M.I.T., from which each received an M.B.A.
Mrs. Clark, 31, is the director for product marketing at Stardog, a data unification company in Arlington, Va. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a daughter of Carol A. Corrado of Washington and Hugh M. Pitcher of Mitchellville, Md. The bride’s mother retired as the chief of industrial output at the Federal Reserve Board’s research and statistics division, and is now a distinguished principal research fellow, in Washington, for the Conference Board, which provides research, policy and business insight to its members. The bride’s father, who is retired, was a senior climate scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a laboratory in College Park, Md., and he was also a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Mr. Clark, 39, is a director for integration in the Washington office of Diligent, a corporate governance technology company. He graduated from Harvard.
He is a son of Hannah Story Sistare and Timothy B. Clark of Bethesda, Md. The groom’s mother retired as the staff director for the United States Senate’s governmental affairs committee in Washington. The groom’s father is the editor at large of Government Executive, an online magazine with offices in Washington, and for which he served as editor in chief, publisher and president until 2007. The groom’s parents are both fellows of the National Academy of Public Administration, and the groom’s mother is also a director of Friends of Acadia, which supports education and conservation programs at Acadia National Park in Maine.
The groom is also a grandson of Blair Clark, who was the general manager of CBS News, the editor of The Nation magazine and who managed the presidential campaign of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, the Minnesota Democrat, in 1968.
