After writing for The Intercept in 2018 she started her political career as the National Press Secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign.

[3] Although initially raised in North Carolina, Gray spent time in Saudi Arabia and Kenya while her parents taught at international schools in those countries.

[4] In February 2001, while driving in Nairobi, Gray's father sustained fatal injuries in a car accident involving an American diplomat.

[8] Gray was hired by The Intercept in 2018, and has also written columns for Rolling Stone, Current Affairs, The Guardian, and New York Magazine.

Since Sanders' 2020 Democratic primary campaign ended, Gray returned to her role as contributing editor at Current Affairs in addition to hosting the Bad Faith podcast, co-founded with Virgil Texas from Chapo Trap House.

[6][12] Gray supported the "Force the Vote" effort organized by Jimmy Dore to pressure left-wing Democratic representatives to withhold their votes for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House at the start of the 117th Congress in order to pressure House Democrats into passing a Medicare for All bill.

Mike Roe of The Wrap noted: "Gray has been a controversial figure, particularly due to her comments about the conflict between Israel and Hamas and the war in Gaza.