Writer, Speaker, Global Wanderer and Lived In Contributor

At age 55, she solo hiked 150 miles on the Camino de Santiago, where she spent a night trapped in a brothel, liberated a 17th century ghost, and got over her fear of bridges. She shares her adventures in Breakfast with Alligators: Tales of Traveling After 50.

Kay writes about travel, relationships, race and equality, and aging adventurously. Her work has appeared in Thrive Global, Times Weekly, P.S. I Love You, Woman’s Day, Fit Pregnancy, Chicago Tribune, Mothering Magazine, Human Parts, ZORA, American Baby, the London Reader, PopSugar, Mamamia, Mamalode, and many others.

She is the former Managing Editor of the online magazine P.S. I Love You.

In 2017, she retired from her first career in nonprofit management after decades of advocating for underserved youth and environmental justice. She’s currently researching a novel in one of her favorite cities in the world—New Orleans.

Email her for freelance writing or editing rates, speaking engagements … or just to say laissez les bon temps rouler.