Prior to arriving at the Academy in July 2009, Commander Gay was the Fifth District Intelligence Officer. While assigned there she was also part of a CG-2 lead team that drafted the recently published COMDTINST M3800.5 Coast Guard Field Intelligence Support to Operations (FISO) Manual. Prior to D5 she was an Atlantic Area Intelligence maritime terrorism analyst, networking with national level intelligence agencies and combatant commands to produce operational level maritime terrorism threat analysis. Prior to that assignment she was the Chief of the Maritime Security Analysis Branch, Coast Guard Intelligence Coordination Center, where she produced all source drug and migrant smuggling intelligence analysis for senior Coast Guard decision-makers. Prior to entering the Coast Guard Intelligence Enterprise in 2000, she served at Activities Baltimore as a Response Team Leader, a Small Passenger Vessel Inspector and a Marine Casualty & Personnel Investigator. From 1995 until 1997, she was the Congressional Staff Writer at the CGPC. She is a 1994 graduate of Officer Candidate School.  

• Master of Science, Strategic Intelligence, Joint Military Intelligence College, 2004
• Bachelor of Science, Liberal Studies and Communications, Excelsior College

• Intelligence and Democracy
• Directed Studies in Intelligence
• Intelligence and National Security Policy
• Introduction to Terrorism
• National Security Policy

• Intelligence Operations in Irregular Warfare
• Strategic Communications in Counterterrorism

• Numerous personally authored Coast Guard Intelligence Assessments 2000-2009. Please call.
• "U.S. Coast Guard Takes the Heat in Caribbean Counter-Narcotics Operations," in Sikorsky News, May/June 1994
• Presentation, "U.S. Asymmetric Illegal Maritime Migration," to International Illegal Maritime Migration Conference, Royal Australian Navy Base, Sydney, Australia, June 2003
• Presentation, “Challenges of Teaching About Terrorism,” to The International Association for Intelligence Educators, Washington, D.C., June 2011

• CG Commendation Medal, Gold Star in Lieu of a Second
• CG Achievement Medal, Gold Star in Lieu of a Fourth (2 w/Op Distinguishing Devices)
• U.S. Air Force Achievement Medal
• U.S. Army Achievement Medal

• International Association of Intelligence Educators (IAIE)
• National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA)
• U.S. Naval Institute (USNI)