 For the 2017-2018 academic year, Seavey was named a Visiting Research Scholar at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University.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 Joseph Gilden.