Nina Gilden Seavey is a documentary filmmaker and Research Professor of History and Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University (GWU).
Seavey 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.
In 1985, Gilden married Ormond Seavey Jr. a professor of English at George Washington University and they moved to Takoma Park, MD, where they still reside.
Gilden's political career began very early when she became the youngest paid member of the McGovern for President Campaign in 1972 serving on the Missouri State staff at the age of 15.
In 1978 Gilden moved to Washington, D.C., where she ran the political action committee for the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy during the mid-term elections.
Immediately after the election, she was hired by Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO) to serve as her legislative staff to the House Armed Services Committee.
In 1990, she developed a partnership with Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Paul Wagner, and they produced several films for the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum, the Discovery Channel, and for PBS.