Giese is an activist for women directors. She is a member of the Director's Guild of America where she is an active member of the Women's Steering Committee and where she served as the inaugural “Women Directors Category Representative” and the inaugural co-chair of the DGA-WSC Proposals Subcommittee, the first ever conduit between the Women's Steering Committee and the DGA National Board. On this committee, she and co-chair, Melanie Wagor, were able to move proposals for women DGA members into the 2014 DGA-studio Collective Bargaining Negotiations.