Cicley Gay brings 20 years of nonprofit and communications experience to her role at NPAG where she amplifies client needs and accomplishments to wider audiences.

She is a two-time participant in AmeriCorps, a civil service effort of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Cicley was the founding director of STAND (Students Take Action for New Directions), educating students on the impact of federal budget priorities on local communities.

Committed to impacting the lives of the underserved, she spent nearly a decade at The Women’s Sports Foundation as the founding director of GoGirlGo! and later as the national director of education and alliances. There, Cicley lead a philanthropic effort to increase physical activity participation for young women throughout the nation.

Cicley was also the national program director of the National CARES Mentoring Movement under the direct leadership of Susan L. Taylor, editor-in-chief emeritus of Essence magazine. In that role, Cicley built the grant allocations process and programmatic infrastructure of a multi-million dollar national mentoring initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Justice.