section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  While at Yale Law School, Usha Chilukuri met her future husband, JD Vance, a relationship encouraged by their professor Amy Chua. Chua has called their relationship "extremely unlikely, almost opposites of personality". In 2013, Chilukuri and Vance collaborated to organize a discussion group at Yale focused on "social decline in white America". Vance often called Chilukuri his "Yale spirit guide".
  
  Chilukuri and Vance married on June 14, 2014 in Kentucky, in an interfaith marriage ceremony, her husband's friend Jamil Jivani read from the Bible and a Hindu pandit blessed the couple. She is a practicing Hindu, and her husband a Christian who was raised Evangelical but converted to Catholicism in 2019. Usha Vance is a vegetarian. At the 2024 Republican National Convention, she said her husband has "adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook food from my mother—Indian food." The Vances reside in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have three children. Vance is a trustee of the Washington National Opera. Previously, she served on the board of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association and as secretary of the board of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
  
  While at Yale Law School, Usha Chilukuri met her future husband, JD Vance, a relationship encouraged by their professor Amy Chua. Chua has called their relationship "extremely unlikely, almost opposites of personality". In 2013, Chilukuri and Vance collaborated to organize a discussion group at Yale focused on "social decline in white America". Vance often called Chilukuri his "Yale spirit guide".
  
  Chilukuri and Vance married on June 14, 2014 in Kentucky, in an interfaith marriage ceremony, her husband's friend Jamil Jivani read from the Bible and a Hindu pandit blessed the couple. She is a practicing Hindu, and her husband a Christian who was raised Evangelical but converted to Catholicism in 2019. Usha Vance is a vegetarian. At the 2024 Republican National Convention, she said her husband has "adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook food from my mother—Indian food." The Vances reside in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have three children. Vance is a trustee of the Washington National Opera. Previously, she served on the board of the Gates Cambridge Alumni Association and as secretary of the board of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.