Zambia RPCV Lilia Anya Gerberg and Matthew Bruce McCaffree to marry



Ms. Gerberg works in Arlington, Va., as a program officer at a nonprofit research and training division of John Snow Inc., a health consultancy in Boston. She coordinates the management of the purchase and distribution of AIDS drugs and health supplies to African countries. From 1999 to 2001, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kayeka, Zambia, where she helped provide hygiene and H.I.V. education. She graduated cum laude from Middlebury.

Zambia RPCV Lilia Anya Gerberg and Matthew Bruce McCaffree to marry

Lilia Gerberg and Matthew McCaffree

Published: September 5, 2009

Lilia Anya Gerberg and Matthew Bruce McCaffree are to be married Sunday at the Marriott Ranch in Hume, Va. Cantor Ellen Stettner is to officiate.
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The couple, both 34, met at Tufts, from which each received a master's degree in law and diplomacy.

Ms. Gerberg works in Arlington, Va., as a program officer at a nonprofit research and training division of John Snow Inc., a health consultancy in Boston. She coordinates the management of the purchase and distribution of AIDS drugs and health supplies to African countries. From 1999 to 2001, she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kayeka, Zambia, where she helped provide hygiene and H.I.V. education. She graduated cum laude from Middlebury.

She is the daughter of Judith Gerberg and Mort Gerberg of New York. Her father is a cartoonist, whose work appears regularly in The New Yorker and on The Huffington Post. He has written or contributed to dozens of books, including "Cartooning: The Art and the Business." Her mother is a career counselor and therapist in New York. She is the president of Career Counselors Consortium, a professional organization.

Mr. McCaffree is the manager of the Institute for Electric Efficiency, a utility trade association in Washington that is part of the Edison Foundation. He is responsible for research involving utilities and state regulations. He graduated from Webster University in Geneva.

He is the son of Dr. Mary Anne McCaffree and Dr. D. Robert McCaffree of Oklahoma City. His parents are professors at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, his mother in pediatrics and his father in medicine. The bridegroom's mother is on the board of trustees of the American Medical Association. Until June his father was the chief of staff of the Oklahoma City Veterans' Administration Medical Center.

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