Kate Seelye is vice president for Arts and Culture at the Middle East Institute where she has worked for a decade in different roles, including as senior vice president. Prior to that, she was a journalist specializing in coverage of the Middle East. Seelye reported for NPR, and has contributed to the BBC, Channel 4, and Frontline/World. She has also worked as a producer for the PBS Newshour based in Los Angeles and as an associate producer at Marketplace.

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Seelye graduated from Amherst College in 1984. In addition to her work at the Middle East Institute and before becoming a journalist, she has been employed by Queen Noor of Jordan and as Manager of Media Relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 2004, Seelye received an honorary doctorate () from Amherst College and is also a Fulbright Scholar ().

Seelye is a daughter of Talcott W. Seelye (1922–2006), a former U.S. ambassador to Tunisia and Syria,^[1] and Joan Hazeltine. Seelye is a descendant of former Amherst College president Julius H. Seelye.