A nominee for the 2006-07 Santa Cruz County Community Foundation's Rydell Fellowship and a recipient of the Carol Anika Mihalik Memorial Fund Grant for new media, Brenda Berg graduated Magna cum Laude from San Jose State University's Art and Design Department. Berg studied digital media at San Jose State University and Cabrillo College, and did her postgraduate work in Studio Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz. When not in her studio workspace, Berg teaches animation, robotics, painting, drawing and mixed media at the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center in Ben Lomond, California.