She is a flutist, electronic musician, and scientist. As an electronic music composer and improviser, she maintains a brain-body performance practice. She strives to integrate conventional emotional and musical expression that she learned as a flutist with the new forms available to her as an electronic musician, using brain-computer interface to reveal aspects of her internal mental state, those left unexpressed by sound or gesture, to an audience. In recent years she has performed this music in academic and popular music venues, conferences, and residencies in the United States and various countries around the world. Leslie completed her Ph.D. in Music and Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Stanford University.