Maya Dimant Lentz and Michael Jacob Cohen are to be married June 16 at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn. Rabbi Rami Schwartzer is to officiate.
The bride, 33, is a visiting associate professor of clinical law and a Friedman Fellow at the Prisoner & Reentry Clinic at George Washington University Law School. She was a public defender from March 2017 to June 2018, working for the state of Maryland, in Montgomery.
She graduated from Barnard College, and received a law degree as well as a masters of law degree in international human rights from Northwestern.
She is a daughter of Judith Dimant Lentz and David W. Lentz of Livingston, N.J. The bride’s father is a senior partner in Lentz & Gengaro, a law firm in West Orange, N.J. Her mother is a psychologist in private practice, also in West Orange.
The groom, 30, is a consultant in Washington for IBM’s global business services. He graduated from the College of William & Mary, and received a master’s degree in Arab studies from Georgetown. From May 2012 to August 2015, he served in the Army as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps. He was last stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.
He is the son of Kathy Cohen of Tucson, and Mark Cohen, of Vienna, Va. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was an independent teacher of English as a Second Language before becoming a stay-at-home parent. His father is the founding partner in Cohen & Burnett, a law firm in McLean, Va. The groom is also the stepson of Leigh Scott.
The couple, who met in June 2017 on the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, will be taking the bride’s mother’s maiden name, Dimant, as their surname. “A nod to feminism,” the bride said, “and to honor my maternal grandparents, whose last name was Dimant, and who were both Holocaust survivors.”
