Jesse Seay is an associate professor in Audio Arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she currently serves as Associate Dean of the School of Media Arts. She holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her artwork has shown at the Hyde Park Art Center, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Chicago Children's Museum, ArtChicago, and is on permanent display at the University of Chicago.