Her research focuses on enhancing auditor judgments, at both the individual and team level, as well as striving for innovation in auditing education. She earned her PhD at Virginia Tech, her BS and MBA degrees at Liberty University, and gained seven years of audit experience with Cherry Bekaert. Professor Fay received the AAA’s 2016 award for Innovation in Auditing and Assurance Education and the 2015 Scholar-Teacher Award from ECU. Her work has been featured on the cover of the Journal of Accountancy, and has been published in Issues in Accounting Education, the CPA Journal, Current Issues in Auditing, Managerial Auditing Journal, and Research in Accounting Regulation.