Kay serves as director of the Community Partnership Project at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a joint initiative with University of Missouri Extension.

In this role, she provides leadership to a variety of efforts that link the university and the St. Louis metropolitan community. Her strengths include planning, program development and implementation and the development of collaborations and partnerships. 

Kay joined the University of Missouri faculty in 1986 and has more than 20 years of experience as an educator, program manager, and administrator, including serving as Extension community development specialist, regional director, Public Policy Research Center director of Community and Neighborhood Development, and Urban Program leader. She has also been project director for two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Outreach Partnership Center grants, serving Old North St. Louis and Affton.

Kay is a UMSL graduate with a master's degree in Public Policy Administration. She was the 2003 recipient of the C. Brice Ratchford Memorial Fellowship Award, in recognition of outstanding commitment, dedication, and effectiveness in advancing the land-grant mission of the University of Missouri.

 

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