[8][6] Wright gained notoriety in the HIV prevention world as he, while writing as a columnist and later senior writer at The Root, he served as publications editor for the Black AIDS Institute.
[9][10] He spent time as senior editor at City Limits, copy editor at the New York Daily News, and news reporter at The Washington Blade [11] before joining ColorLines in 2010, initially as editorial and later as, editor-at-large[5][3] He is credited with transforming the publication from a bimonthly print journal to a daily digital destination reaching 1 million readers a month.
[11] In 2015, Wright was persuaded to join The Nation as a features editor, making it, at the time, one of the few political magazines with people of color in senior leadership.
The magazine looked to him to enhance coverage in his areas of expertise - issues of race and racial justice, inequality, labor, health, and sexuality.
[11] While features editor at The Nation, Wright began hosting the podcast “The United States of Anxiety” in partnership with WNYC Studios.