Katti Gray is an award-winning journalist and custom content producer-consultant mainly specializing in news about health and criminal justice. She is an assigning editor at the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange and a contributing editor at the Center on Media, Crime and Justice, where she also coordinates national journalism conferences and journalism fellowships. She is a panel organizer and moderator for organizations including the Association of Health Care Journalists, where she is the mental health topics leader.
Her work appears in, among other books, The Criminalization of Mental Illness (Carolina Academic Press) and Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Health Care System (John Hopkins University Press).
Her wide-ranging journalism has explored: The lack of people of color in medical clinical trials. How preventable and other chronic illnesses raised Covid-19 risks for some Blacks. Race- and income-driven gaps in IVF, surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technology. A first-of-its-kind criminal justice think tank run by formerly incarcerated PhDs. Pioneering jail-, prison- and community-based programs for veterans with mental illness. Ghosts of a race massacre and hopes for rebirth in tiny Elaine, Arkansas. A fight for running water in Mississippi. Fighting fat in Memphis, Tennessee. How growing our food can be good medicine. Losing sugar cravings and pounds. The allure of home. Gratitude ... and much more.
She's been a Pulitzer Prize committee juror and jury chairperson. Her awards include a Pulitzer shared with a team from Newsday. She has been a fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Association of Health Care Journalists, Fund for Investigative Journalism, National Association of Black Journalists Ethel Payne program, National Institutes of Health Medicine in Media program, National Press Foundation, Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism program, World Conference of Science Journalists and other organizations.
She is programs and instruction director for New York University’s Urban Journalism Workshop, and has taught journalism at Columbia University, Hunter College and Long Island College's Brooklyn campus. She ghostwrites and provides fact-based custom content for a variety of philanthropies and nonprofit organizations.
She resides in New York and Little Rock, Arkansas, her hometown.
Her work appears in, among other books, The Criminalization of Mental Illness (Carolina Academic Press) and Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Health Care System (John Hopkins University Press).
Her wide-ranging journalism has explored: The lack of people of color in medical clinical trials. How preventable and other chronic illnesses raised Covid-19 risks for some Blacks. Race- and income-driven gaps in IVF, surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technology. A first-of-its-kind criminal justice think tank run by formerly incarcerated PhDs. Pioneering jail-, prison- and community-based programs for veterans with mental illness. Ghosts of a race massacre and hopes for rebirth in tiny Elaine, Arkansas. A fight for running water in Mississippi. Fighting fat in Memphis, Tennessee. How growing our food can be good medicine. Losing sugar cravings and pounds. The allure of home. Gratitude ... and much more.
She's been a Pulitzer Prize committee juror and jury chairperson. Her awards include a Pulitzer shared with a team from Newsday. She has been a fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Association of Health Care Journalists, Fund for Investigative Journalism, National Association of Black Journalists Ethel Payne program, National Institutes of Health Medicine in Media program, National Press Foundation, Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism program, World Conference of Science Journalists and other organizations.
She is programs and instruction director for New York University’s Urban Journalism Workshop, and has taught journalism at Columbia University, Hunter College and Long Island College's Brooklyn campus. She ghostwrites and provides fact-based custom content for a variety of philanthropies and nonprofit organizations.
She resides in New York and Little Rock, Arkansas, her hometown.