Bio:

Pamay is the Chief Experience Officer of "My 52 Weeks of Worship Project" which started when she, in response to a difficult personal year in 2009, made a commitment to visit a different place of worship each week in 2010 - whether that place of worship reflected her personal religious tradition or not. She has written a book about her experiences called: My 52 Weeks of Worship: A Journey of Healing, Connection and Remembrance. She also maintains a blog/journal about her on-going experiences. She delivers keynote speeches and facilitates a series of workshops, presentations, and learning experiences based on her personal and professional experiences, and on the lessons she learned from her global, spiritual journey.

Pamay is also the president of The Pamay Group, an e-learning design and strategy company, and has over 18 years of experience in designing and developing online learning courses for K-12, community organizations, corporate and virtual university audiences, computer based training, and day-in-the-life simulations. She has worked for and consulted for such companies as Coca Cola USA, McDonald's, Mabam! Entertainment, Sanofi, Accenture, Resources Global, Manpower, Kraft, The Boys and Girls Club, Siemens, HSBC, Pratt and Whitney, and GE Capital. Pamay has managed and designed learning applications that received both the Cindy Award and an Honorable Mention from the Computerworld Smithsonian Program, and holds a patent for a "Goal based system utilizing a table based architecture," which is a system that utilizes a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. In the past, she served as an educational researcher/consultant for projects at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. For the past 10 years, she has also served as a faculty member for several online universities, including Cardean University, American Intercontinental University Online, and the Art Institute Online, where she has taught User Experience, Computer Applications, and Information Technology courses.

Pamay holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, a course of study that draws from computer science, philosophy, psychology, and linguistics, which she received at the age of 20. Her concentration of study there was Artificial Intelligence. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she studied at The Institute of Learning Sciences under the visionary Roger Schank. She earned a Project Management Certification from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Master Online Teacher Certification from the University of Illinois, Springfield.

Pamay is also a graduate of the acclaimed Second City Conservatory program in Chicago, Illinois, which is an advanced study of improvisational comedy and theatre. She has performed as an improviser, comedian, actress and public speaker all over the United States and in West Africa.

Pamay was chosen as Today's Chicago Woman's "Woman to Watch" in 2001, selected as one of the "Top 40 Nigerians under 40 in the USA" in 2005, serves on the Chicago Board of the African Women's Development Fund, and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated.

Most popular speeches/talks/presentations focus on the following topics:

1. Facing adversity.
2. Diversity, inclusion, and tolerance.
3. Interfaith communication and understanding.
4. Practical ways to strengthen your spiritual foundation one day at a time.
5. Changing your life, 1 week at a time.
6. What to do when you wake up one morning and realize your life is not at all what you expected it would be.
7. Reinvention.
8. Being brave enough to tackle something big - in little pieces.
9. Setting and executing on resolutions, promises, and plans.
10. Walking through a grieving process and coming out stronger on the other side.