Rachel Mallory Quint and Aaron Benjamin Sherman are to be married Nov. 11 in Sonoma, Calif. Rabbi Adir Yolkut, a friend of the groom, is to officiate at Jacuzzi Family Vineyards.
Ms. Quint, 30, is a strategy manager for the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid and refugee relief organization based in New York. She previously served as a senior policy officer on gender data in the New York office of the United Nations Foundation. She graduated from Stanford, from which she also received a master’s degree in African Studies.
She is a daughter of Janet R. Quint and Brian D. Quint of Tiburon, Calif. The bride’s father, a lawyer, is a partner in a municipal bond practice in Larkspur, Calif. Her mother, now retired, was an occupational therapist.
Mr. Sherman, also 30, is the senior speechwriter for the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and was, from 2013 to 2017, a speechwriter at the Pentagon for Chuck Hagel and Ashton B. Carter when each served as defense secretary. The groom graduated from the University of California, Davis.
He is a son of Nancy E. Sherman and Edward S. Sherman of Santa Rosa, Calif. The groom’s mother works in Santa Rosa as an independent parenting coach. She is also a family guide at Cleo, a San Francisco company that offers prenatal and postnatal parenting support benefits and services. The groom’s father, a lawyer, has a patent and intellectual property practice in Santa Rosa and is corporate counsel to Meyer, a cookware manufacturer in Vallejo, Calif.
The couple met in 2003 in Palo Alto, Calif., at a regional convention of United Synagogue Youth.