[2] McGhee is a regular contributor to NBC News and frequently appears as a guest and panelist on Meet the Press, All In with Chris Hayes, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

[3][5][9] After graduating from Yale in 2001, she taught English in Barcelona for a short time, but soon after the September 11 attacks she moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in television writing.

[5] She left Demos to attend law school and serve as a Deputy Policy Director for the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign.

[14] In 2016, McGhee's televised phone conversation with a man named Gary on C-SPAN who admitted racial prejudice ("I'm a White male, and I am prejudiced.

"[22] McGhee has appeared on episodes of Pod Save America and was a guest host for a live recording of the podcast in Boston.

[25] In March 2021, her book "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together" debuted at #3 on the New York Times best seller list (for non-fiction).