Before joining the legislature, Senator Geiss was an adjunct faculty member in the humanities at Wayne County Community College District, as well as an instructor at the Art Institute of Michigan-Troy and the University of New Hampshire, Durham. Geiss was also director of education at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University and the curatorial liaison for the core, permanent exhibition, “And Still We Rise: Our Journey through African American History,” at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History.