Jane Alissa Flegal and Eric Robert Dougherty were married Oct. 12 at Colony 29, an events space in Palm Springs, Calif. Mary H. Russo, an aunt of the bride, solemnized the marriage, having been designated a deputy commissioner of marriages in Riverside County.
The bride and groom each received a doctoral degree in environmental science, policy and management from the University of California, Berkeley. They met in 2013, on the first night of a camping trip in Point Reyes National Seashore that was part of their orientation for the doctoral program.
Dr. Flegal, 32, is the environmental program officer, overseeing grant-making on climate change, at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust in New York. She is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, which is in Tempe, Ariz. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College.
She is the daughter of Michelle A. Flegal of Pompano Beach, Fla., and H. Scott Flegal of Nashua, N.H. The bride’s father is a lawyer in private practice in Nashua. Her mother retired as a director for federal business sales, in Pompano Beach at OSI Systems, a manufacturer of specialized electronic systems and components.
Dr. Dougherty, 29, is a data scientist at Care/of, a vitamin and supplements subscription service in New York. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis.
He is the son of Adria J. Dougherty and Craig J. Dougherty of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. The groom’s mother is the vice president for operations at the Sterling Publishing Company, a New York book publishing division of Barnes & Noble. His father is a corporate vice president in the group membership department, in White Plains, of the New York Life Insurance Company.
