Marilyn Anne Ray is Professor Emeritus at Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. She holds a diploma and degrees in nursing, anthropology and transcultural nursing. Ray has held faculty positions at the University of San Francisco, University of California San Francisco, McMaster University, University of Colorado, and the Eminent Scholar and academic professorial positions at Florida Atlantic University. She is certified as an advanced Transcultural Nurse, and Fellow, Transcultural Nursing Society Scholars. Her focus is transcultural and organizational caring science writing or editing four books, and presenting nationally and internationally to facilitate research using her Theories of Bureaucratic Caring (BCT) and Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Healthcare, and her Caring Inquiry Methodology. Ray is a retired Colonel and Veteran of the United States Air Force Nurse Corps (USAF NC) serving for 32 years in reserve assignments as a flight nurse and in command positions in nursing education, aerospace nursing research, and administration. She has received numerous research awards from the USAF; IAHC Legacy of Caring and alumni awards from the University of Colorado and University of Utah.