Cynthia Leigh Drakeman and Richard Owen Georg Wanerman were married Oct. 27 at the Princeton University Chapel in Princeton, N.J. The Rev. David J. Lucey, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony.
Dr. Drakeman, 38, is the founding chief executive of Double X Economy, a research and consulting firm in Washington concerned with the economic empowerment of women. She was the lead author of “Leave No One Behind: Taking Action for Transformational Change on Women’s Economic Empowerment,” a 2017 report for a panel of the United Nations and is an American delegate to the W20, part of the Group of 20 that works for women’s economic advancement. She is also a director of Solar Sister, an organization in Washington that helps women in Tanzania, Nigeria and Uganda become solar-product entrepreneurs.
She graduated from Princeton and received a doctoral degree in classical archaeology from Oxford University in England.
She is a daughter of Lisa N. Drakeman and Donald L. Drakeman of Hilton Head Island, S.C. The bride’s father retired as the chief executive of Medarex, a biotechnology firm that was in Princeton, and is now a venture partner at Advent Life Sciences, a venture capital firm in London. Her mother retired as the chief executive of Genmab, a Danish biotechnology firm with offices in Copenhagen and in Princeton, and now leads seminars on wine and speaks about wine culture and business.
Mr. Wanerman, 29, is a program analyst for sealift support in the Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration, which is in Washington. He performs regulatory and compliance review for a program that provides support to the United States Merchant Marine.
He graduated from Lawrence University of Appleton, Wis. He received a law degree from Case Western Reserve University.
He is the son of Linda Rich Wanerman and Robert E. Wanerman of Potomac, Md. The groom’s mother retired as a senior vice president for bond sales at Smith Barney, the New York investment bank, and is now also a director of Solar Sister. His father is a partner in the health care practice at Epstein Becker & Green, a Washington law firm, and is the president of the board that oversees the programs of the Ivymount School, which is in Rockville, Md., and provides education and other opportunities to children and young adults with special needs.
The couple met in 2016 through Washington National Cathedral’s resident symphonic choir, with which they both continue to sing.
