Allison Zelman weds Max Lesko

Allison Lee Zelman and Max Schaetzel Lesko were married atThe ​​Hotchkiss School’s Fairfield Farm in Lakeville​ on Sept. 23, 2017. The wedding was officiated by the couple’s friend, Noland Chambliss.

Ms. Zelman, who grew up in Lakeville and attended Salisbury Central, Indian Mountain and the Berkshire School, is a daughter of Dr. Jared Zelman and Dr. Pamela Chassin of Lakeville. Mr. Lesko is a son of Wendy Schaetzel and Matthew Lesko of Kensington, Md.

Ms. Zelman, 33, is the Director of States for the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C. After graduating from Connecticut College, she worked on both Barack Obama presidential campaigns. In 2012, she served as Director of Field Operations for Pennsylvania. 

During the Obama administration, she worked at the Council on Environmental Quality, as a Policy Assistant in the White House, and as a Senior Advisor and Director of Public Engagement at the Department of Labor. Most recently, she served as a National Regional Director for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Mr. Lesko, 33, graduated from the College of Wooster and received a law degree from Georgetown. He is the Director of National Organizing and Intergovernmental Outreach for the Children’s Defense Fund and the Director of the Children’s Defense Fund Action Council in Washington, D.C. 

He also served in both Obama presidential campaigns and worked in the Obama administration as the Domestic Director in the Presidential Personnel office, as an Assistant Counsel in the office of the White House Counsel and as Chief of Staff at the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education.

The couple met in 2008 in Portland, Ore., while working on the Obama presidential campaign. They live in Washington, D.C.   

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