Gay was born in 1965 to a ranching, entrepreneurial family in Oklahoma, and spent most of her life under the open skies of the West, including 26 years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She began making documentary films in the late 1980s, her first being "The WIPP Trail", narrated by Robert Redford, which cast a critical eye on the nation's first and only underground nuclear waste repository.
Her film, "My Body Belongs to Me", a children's educational program on sexual abuse, earned an American Film Festival award for "Guidance & Values Education". Her company co-produced Dr. Andrew Weil's first PBS programs in the mid-1990s.
Gay then co-founded and managed two environmental technology companies, Earthstone International and Growstone, and served eight years on the EIB, a regulatory board in charge of environmental management and consumer protection for the State of New Mexico. Under her tenure, the EIB spearheaded the passage of the most comprehensive regulations on greenhouse gases in the country.
In 2010, she joined Governor Richardson as his energy advisor on a private mission to North Korea, a move that many believe helped avert a potential armed conflict or war.
Today, Gay is focusing her passion on informing and enlightening through her film company, CNS Communications, LLC. Her project, "Dying to Know", has been 18 years in the making, and she is grateful to be back to her life's passion of making films and telling meaningful stories.
