Yes. He'd puppy dog anybody to get volunteers because he's shameless like that when it comes to his work but if they were also friends he'd have no doubt about going full on guilting (in friendly jest of course) to try and get her to come on around.
Maybe they became friendly enough she learned his recent relationship history if you'd like that? He's not so much shy about talking about it but it might take the right questions for him to talk about his wife and what happened. I'm going to pop open his bio to make it easy.