About Katti Gray

Katti Gray's avatar image GRAY, KATTI is a veteran journalist and also a blogger at www.makingdolikemama.com. She worked full-time at a succession of three daily newspapers, with Newsday in New York the last among them. A freelancer since late 2005, she is a generalist, tackling a range of topics, but also specializes in higher education, criminal justice and human resources, and recently began writing about health. Her articles appear in, among others publications, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Essence, Newsday, News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), TheRoot.com, TheGrio.com and SHRM.org. Her work also has been published by DailyYonder.com, Ms., The Crisis, Vibe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Toronto Star and Jet, among others. Her photographs have run alongside her articles for DailyYonder.com and Diverse Issues, and on the website of NPR’s Here & Now broadcast. Born and reared in Arkansas, Gray studied journalism and political science at Texas Christian University. She has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus and the High School Journalism Workshop run by the New York Association of Black Journalists. She’s a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Association of Health Care Journalists and National Association of Black Journalists; studies photography through the School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Division; and cooks and caters with a couple girlfriends through their tiny Table Graces enterprise. She sings in the choir at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, shuttling between that borough and a post-Dirty Dancing, post-tourism town in the western Catskills where the deer wander into her backyard and the groundhogs freely munch on cilantro and basil plants. Her website is www.kattigray.com.

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  • Projects

    • Alameda Food Bank
    • The Alameda food bank serves residents in the city of Alameda. There is a pick up for food pantry and USDA government food packages on Tuesdays from 4:30 to 6:30p.m. ...

    • Testimonials

    I'm a freelancer, managing to stay afloat in a tight/retrenching market and clear that I've got to provide more than words/reportage (and the occasional photo that I sell along with my articles) to continue in the craft to which I remain totally devoted. I also am part of a growing private/personal circle of freelancers, some of whom have very much bought into this new media model but haven't a clue on how to wade fully into it. I'll be sharing with them what I've learned here, my cheat sheets, and, more importantly, pointing them to the free tutorials that I suspect most of them do not even know exist. For my own part, I spend so much time reporting and writing that I'd not investigated many of the no-cost, low-cost tools ... I'm inspired and encouraged!