Dr. Lynette Gay Is the Managing Director of Kensington Capital Children’s Fund, an organization that supports and works with multiple charities around the world. She also currently serves as Chair of Engage Now Africa. In 2002, she helped launch an integrated development program in Ethiopia’s Rift Valley which has expanded to include Ghana, Sierra Leone and Namibia.
 
The initiatives in these countries include health and sanitation, medical and maternal clinics, literacy and micro-credit, and education and orphan support. Engage Now Africa is also heavily involved in ending the practice of modern slavery, of all kinds, throughout Africa.
 
She has organized and worked in rural medical clinics throughout Africa for over twenty years. She and her husband, Elder Robert C. Gay, lived in Ghana, West Africa from 2004–2007, serving as Mission President over the Ghana Accra Mission. In that capacity they frequently travelled to Sierra Leone and Liberia and have continued to work in development in these countries.
Lynette received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utah in 2016.