Independent journalist

Katti Gray is AHCJ’s former health beat leader for behavioral and mental health and a former Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow. Gray has covered, among other topics, mental health care in prisons and jails, the debate over whether mental illnesses are being over-diagnosed and efforts to persuade people of color to be less skeptical about seeking counseling and other mental health services. Her work has been published by The Washington Post, Salon, Reuters, New York Newsday, Los Angeles Times, Health Affairs, Essence, Colorlines, CNN, CBS News, ABC News the AARP, among other publications. Her writings appear in,” The Criminalization of Mental Illness” and “Narrative Matters: Writing to Change the Health Care System,” among other books.