Nina Gilden Seavey [SEP] educated at
Nina Gilden Seavey
Nina Gilden Seavey is a documentary filmmaker and Research Professor of History and Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University (GWU). She is the director of the Documentary Center at GW, which she founded in October 1990.
In 2003, she and Frank Sesno launched The Center for Innovative Media for which they serve as co-directors. The Documentary Center and the Center for Innovative Media are divisions of the School of Media and Public Affairs at GW. She also served as Founding Director and Executive
Producer for SILVERDOCS: AFI-Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival (now known as AFI Docs) between 2002 and 2008. For the 2017-2018 academic year, Seavey was named a Visiting Research Scholar at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.
Early life.
Nina Beth Gilden, grew up in St. Louis, Missouri the daughter of civil rights attorney, Louis Gilden, and clinical psychologist Joanne Bamberger Gilden. She has three brothers, Carey Wayne Gilden (deceased), David Loren Gilden, and Daniel