Jessica Rose Brandt and Dr. Jeffrey Alan Tornheim were married Feb. 20 in Westmoreland Hills Park in Bethesda, Md. Rabbi Hannah Goldstein, a friend of the couple, officiated. On Feb. 24, Rabbi Adam J. Baldachin also a friend of the couple, is to lead a Jewish ceremony at Casa Maya Kaan, a private villa in Tulum, Mexico.
Ms. Brandt, 35, is a fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, where her research focuses on multilateral institutions and the geopolitical consequences of state fragility. She is a David Rockefeller fellow of the Trilateral Commission and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan. She graduated with honors from Johns Hopkins University and received a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Janet E. Ribardo of Lakewood Ranch, Fla., and Alan J. Brandt of West Nyack, N.Y. The bride’s father retired as the principal at Intermediate School 193 in the Bronx, and then retired as the director of curriculum for kindergarten through Grade 12 at the College Board in Manhattan. Her mother retired as an independent nurse practitioner, based in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Dr. Tornheim, 37, an infectious disease doctor, is an assistant professor of medicine and a physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. His research focuses on the application of new diagnostic technologies to improve health outcomes in the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in India. He graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University and received a medical degree and a master’s degree in public health from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, now known as the Icahn School of Medicine.
He is the son of Bonnie J. Tornheim and Mark Tornheim of Surprise, Ariz. His mother retired as a teacher at Sequoia Elementary School in Pleasant Hill, Calif. His father retired as a commercial real estate appraiser at the Alameda County Assessor’s Office in Oakland, Calif.
The couple met in the summer of 2016 through the dating app JSwipe, and when he moved to Mumbai, India, for the academic year in September, they then met for extended dates around the world in Tel Aviv, Paris, Lake Tahoe, Calif., and finally in Goa, India.
