Danielle Elise Serbin and Yuvaraj Sivalingam are to be married Feb. 16 at the Ebell Club in Long Beach, Calif. Rabbi Richard Steinberg is to officiate, with Cantor Arie Shikler to take part.
Mrs. Sivalingam, 33, is a trial lawyer at the consumer protection branch of the Justice Department in Washington. She graduated with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley, from which she also received a law degree.
She is the daughter of Michele Carmeli and Howard Serbin of Mission Viejo, Calif. The bride’s parents are law partners at Serbin & Carmeli, Attorneys at Law, in Irvine, Calif.
Mr. Sivalingam, 32, is the national security adviser to Representative Gil Cisneros Jr., Democrat of California. The groom served in the Obama administration from 2013-17 as a special assistant to the under secretary of defense for policy. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and received a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics.
He is the son of Dr. Chandra Sivalingam of Fullerton, Calif., and Yuvaraj Sivalingam of Yorba Linda, Calif. The groom’s mother, who works in Santa Ana, Calif., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist for the Orange County Health Care Agency. His father retired as a self-employed mechanical engineer.
The couple met on April 12, 2017, at a meeting of the Orange County Young Democrats in Santa Ana.
