Diana Dae Yeon Won and Hassan Emaduddin Ansari were married Feb. 21 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez of the city clerk’s office officiated.
The couple met at the University of Michigan, from which the groom graduated and received a law degree, and each received a master’s degree in public policy.
The bride, 30, is a program manager in New York for the Pershing Square Foundation, a charitable venture that has provided more than $400 million in grants since 2006. She graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers and received a Fulbright grant in 2011-12 to teach English at the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
She is a daughter of Junghee Won and Jongil Won of Closter, N.J.
The groom, 29, is an assistant professor of law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, where he teaches courses in legal theory and human rights to undergraduates. He is currently on sabbatical to conduct research in New York.
He is the son of Iram Ansari and Hassan Ansari of Lahore.
The couple met at a Mexican Independence Day party in September 2013, and began dating the next year.
