[4] She is descended from a John Dungey, a Pamunkey man who lived in Virginia and ran his own shipping business.
The tribe's enrollment policies that excluded members[6] who married or had children with African Americans was exposed by the Congressional Black Caucus[7] during their recognition process in 2013.
[5] She also co-wrote and co-produced the TV drama series Sweetbitter[21] on Starz, based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Stephanie Danler.
[citation needed] From 2019, Dungey wrote and hosted on Season 1 of Say It Loud, an educational series for PBS Digital.
[22] Also in 2019, she was executive producer and writer for Lena Waithe's Twenties, [23] a sitcom on BET and Showtime, as well as Tracy Oliver's comedy series Harlem (2021), for which her writing was praised.
[24] Towards the end of the prolonged 2023 writers' strike in the U.S., during which Azie stood on the picket line for nearly four months, she went to Australia.