Robert Tunstall Winston Berkman and Joseph Lawrence Breen were married Nov. 9 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Shunya Togashi, a staff member of the New York City Clerk’s Office, officiated. On Nov. 17, Kenji Yoshino, who was a law professor of Mr. Berkman at N.Y.U., will lead the couple in their vows at the Boston Public Library.
The couple, who will change their surnames to Berkman-Breen, work at the New York Legal Assistance Group, where Mr. Breen is a legal fellow and Mr. Berkman is a staff attorney. The group provides free civil legal services to New Yorkers who cannot afford a private lawyer.
Mr. Berkman (left), 30, who goes by Winston, graduated magna cum laude from Tufts. He also received a law degree and a master of public administration from N.Y.U.
He is a son of McKey Winston Berkman and James S. Berkman of Boston. Mr. Berkman’s mother is a bookbinder and conservator with a studio in Somerville, Mass. His father retired as the head of school at Boston University Academy in Massachusetts. He is also the author of “The Product of Woollett,” a novel that is a sequel to “The Ambassadors” by Henry James (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015).
Mr. Breen, 29, graduated from Yale and received a law degree cum laude and a master in public policy from Harvard.
He is the son of Margaret J. Breen of Mount Kisco, N.Y., and the late Lawrence E. Breen, who also lived in Mount Kisco. Mr. Breen’s mother retired as a math teacher and a department chairwoman at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, N.Y. His father was an assistant principal, also at Horace Greeley.
Mr. Berkman and Mr. Breen met in summer 2012 while they were taking a course in urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and began dating a year later when they both lived in Brooklyn.
