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Lindsay Chura, Matthew Mandelberg
Lindsay Rachel Chura and Matthew Craig Mandelberg are to be married June 17 in Warrenton, Va. Rabbi Shira Stutman is to officiate at Airlie, a hotel and conference center.
The bride, 33, works in Washington as the chief scientific officer for the Global Council on Brain Health, which was created by AARP in collaboration with Age UK, a charity for older people. She graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke and received a Ph.D. in psychiatry from the University of Cambridge, where, as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, she performed research that used neuroimaging techniques to investigate brain structure and function in children with autism.
She is the daughter of Susan K. Chura and Daniel K. Chura of Slingerlands, N.Y. The bride’s father retired as a district manager of sales for Brasseler USA, a dental equipment company. Her mother retired as a second-grade teacher at Waterford Halfmoon Elementary in Waterford, N.Y.
The groom, 34, is a trial lawyer in the antitrust division of the Justice Department in Washington. He is also an adjunct professor of legal research analysis and writing at Georgetown. He graduated cum laude from Columbia and received a Master of Public Affairs from Princeton and a law degree from Stanford.
He is a son of Risa F. Mandelberg and Dr. Alan I. Mandelberg of Encino, Calif. The groom’s mother, now retired, owned the Paperdoll Company in Encino, which designed and manufactured paper-cut greeting cards. His father, an ophthalmologist, practices in Burbank, Calif., and is an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center, where he teaches cataract and corneal surgery.
The couple met in 2016 at a Shabbat dinner given by the young professionals group at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington.
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