[1] In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in recognition of her work "investigating the ways in which labor, identity, and human rights are transformed by the digital economy.

Her senior project explored the role of contemporary Alaskan Native single mothers in subsistence economies.

Her dissertation was titled Coming of Age in a Digital Era: Youth Queering Technologies in Small Town, USA.

[3] Gray's early works explore the experiences of LGBTQ youth, with a particular focus on the lives of those in rural areas.

[5] The book takes a look at big companies, like Google and Amazon, that use these "ghost workers" to do things like censor their sites while trying to pass it off as AI.