This week, we hear from Kate and Mike Gilles, Class of 2004.

Mike and Kate are looking forward to celebrating their 7th wedding anniversary this May, and expecting their second child in July. Their story was featured as part of Wes-Side Story a Wesleyan Valentine’s Day Special in 2015.

Kate and Mike were married in 2008, and currently live in Washington, D.C., with their two-year-old son, Sebastian, and two dogs. Kate works as a Senior Policy Analyst for the Population Reference Bureau, where she focuses on youth, gender, and sexual and reproductive health policy issues. She is also a coordinator for the D.C. Doulas for Choice Collective. Mike works as an Attorney-Adviser for the U.S. Department of State, where he current serves in the office of economic and business affairs. He also teaches a course in International Business Transactions at American University's Washington College of Law.

The Wesleyan Storytelling Project is produced by Mia Lobel ’97 and production intern Tess Altman ’17.