Leslee Broersma received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California Irvine and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. She went on to teach photography and digital art at the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado. She is currently working on photography projects in two disparate locations: the Rio Grande Valley at the US/Mexico border and western Europe. She has been granted several artist residencies in Italy - at the Fusion Art Gallery in Turin; La Macina di San Cresci in Greve in Chianti; and the Venice Art Residency. Participating in the residencies allows her to work on her ongoing series Academia: Interior Landscapes (2016-present). The series was featured in BuzzFeed in September 2019. Ms. Broersma has received several grants including a WESTAF/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a New Forms/Andy Warhol Foundation Project Grant, a Colorado Council for the Arts Fellowship, as well as faculty grants from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her photography and video work have been shown at The DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the William Benton Museum of Art at the University of Connecticut, Temple Art Gallery in Philadelphia, the University of Colorado Art Museum, the Aspen Art Museum, the Dairy Center for the Arts, and the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities. Her video piece in fear is part of the The Anthony and Beth Terrana Collection in Boston, MA. In 2017, she was selected as one of the photographers for the CENTER Santa Fe's prestigious portfolio review Review Santa Fe. Ms. Broersma taught at the University of Colorado Boulder until 2019 and currently spends her time traveling and working on her photography projects.