Communications
Cicley Gay brings 20 years of nonprofit experience to her role as Communications Contractor at NPAG. 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.
Cicley studied political science and communications at the University of Kansas and has served on the National Physical Activity Steering Committee. She is a former recipient of the Catalyst Award from the Global Center for Social Change through Women’s Leadership, a member of the inaugural class of WEI, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, and was recognized as one of Georgia's 40 Under 40 in 2017. Her greatest accomplishment to-date is winning “Mom of the Year” as a stage, football and lacrosse mom to three sons.