Career
She is currently the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair, Professor of Telecommunications at Ball State University. Ament is well known also for her 1989 appearance on the television program Late Night with David Letterman, the only Foley artist ever invited as a guest. Despite her success in the film industry, Ament has also taught in primary schools since 1978 and in universities (including DePaul University, Georgia State University, Ball State University, Columbia College Chicago, and Cuesta College) since 2001, has an Master of Divinity from Starr King School for the Ministry (1990) and a Doctor of Philosophy in Moving Image Studies from Georgia State University (2014), and released a jazz Civil Defense in 2004 entitled Working Without a Net.
She also lent her voice and songwriting to the 1999 film Foreign Correspondents, which featured her song "Every Other Night.".
