As published in the New York Times: ‘Jill Nicole Filipovic and Ty Lohrer McCormick were married Jan. 29 at the Talisman restaurant in Nairobi, Kenya. Diane Lucas, an assistant attorney general for the State of New York and a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life Minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride, 34, is a Nairobi-based freelance journalist and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She graduated cum laude from N.Y.U., from which she also received a law degree. She is the author of ‘The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness,” (National Books, 2017). She is a daughter of Mary Judith Filipovic and Michael Filipovic, both of Seattle. The bride’s father, who works in Seattle, is the federal public defender for Western Washington. Her mother is a nurse manager at Northwest Hospital, also in Seattle. The groom, who is 30 and also works in Nairobi, is the Africa editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He graduated with distinction from Stanford and received a master’s degree from Oxford. He also received a second masters’ from Queen’s University in Belfast in Northern Ireland. He is a son of Eva Barbara Lohrer and Dr. Robert Keith McCormick, both of Amherst, Mass. The groom’ mother is a certified public accountant there. His father is a chiropractic physician, also in Amherst. The couple met in December 2013 on a press trip to Malawi organized by the United Nations Foundation, where they groom impressed the bride by changing a blown-out tire on the way to interview then-president Joyce Banda.’