[1] She also studied photography in Cape Town, South Africa while volunteering in a clinic for bead working artisans living with HIV.
Mays was a 2009–2010 Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she worked with astronomers who are using the world's most advanced telescopes to look at the sky.
[6] During her time at the observatory, she was given access to the institutional archive of rejected prints, negatives, and other ephemera.
[7] In 2006, she was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for study in Cape Town, South Africa.
[7] The Atlanta-based Art Papers describes her work as standing "in deft opposition to the technology we have come to rely on for answers, putting faith not in complex databases and rapidly evolving technology, but rather in the ability of everyday objects and materials to spark our imagination.