Seay, Creole and of the middle class, attended the Anglican Church school and earned her teaching credentials in the pupil-teacher program.
The BCN members visited the homes of the poor in their assigned areas[7] and provided proper parenting training, instruction on sanitation, midwifery services, and general welfare work.
The idea failed, but she followed it up in 1934 with a proposal for the Palace Theatre to assist in an unemployment fund in conjunction with the BCN, which would provide groceries to needy families.
[11] For her loyalty and steadfastness in the midst of the anti-colonial labor unrest of 1934, Seay was awarded by Governor Alan Burns as a Member of the Order of the British Empire,[9] becoming the country's second woman citizen to be honored when she accepted the presentation in 1935.
[3] She argued in favor of divorce, as a countermeasure to adultery and illegitimacy, and when legalization occurred in 1935, Seay's activism was credited in large part with its passage.
[17] Throughout the 1940s, Seay supported the anti-nationalist goals of the administration and then in 1951, [19] became the only woman founder of the National Party, which formed to contest severing ties with Britain.