Gee earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance choreography and performance from Sarah Lawrence College.
[4][5][6] She was the artistic director and choreographer of Cinque Folkloric Dance Company in New York for fifteen years.
In 2011 she performed Ramblin' Blues, a solo choreographed by Duane Cyrus and set to music of Aretha Franklin, at the North Carolina Dance Festival in Boone, Wilmington, and Greensboro.
[8] In 2013 Gee spent six months in Burkina Faso, studying dance and music as a Fulbright Scholar.
She was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the American Association of University Women for her work on The Mande Legacy, a multimedia dance documentation.