Early Life and Education
Leah Gilliam was born in 1967 in Washington, DC. The daughter of Sam Gilliam, an abstract painter, and Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first black woman reporter for The Washington Post, she grew up with parents who were instrumental in exposing her to cultural production early on in life. She attended Brown University, where she studied Modern Culture and Media. Gilliam graduated with her B.A. in 1989. She received her M.F.A. in 1992 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee studying Film and Twentieth Century Studies. She has also been studying at NYU from 2006 to 2008. Since receiving her Masters in Professional Studies in Interactive Communication from NYU, Leah Gilliam has had a number of academic and design lab appointments.
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