Valerie Gay is a Deputy Director of Audience Engagement + Chief Experience Officer at Barnes Foundation. She possess expertise in fundraising, public speaking, leadership, higher education, event planning and 12 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Valerie is an outstanding leader and was a great help to me when I was a member of the board of Temple University's College of Education. She can explain things well and can direct you to the people in charge when you want to start a new project. " and "Val Gay struck me as an and individual whose personal ambitions are to make the world a better place and has an established track record of doing so. In her time at Temple she exceeded her fundraising goals at a time when many others considered it difficult to do so, she made sure her office documented administrative processes and procedures, and helped build a foundation for progress for her successor. She demonstrated strong leadership, companion, and did it in style."