Heather M. Gray ’93

Heather M. Gray ’93, of Valley Village, Calif., formerly of New York; July 30. While at Brown, she was one of the cofounders of Brown Sisters United, an organization that promoted sisterhood among women of color on campus. She went on to earn a law degree from USC in 1996 but decided to venture into the entertainment industry. She became a producer on The Tyra Banks Show and won two Emmys. She then became a development executive for Endemol USA. She joined The Talk, which debuted in 2010, midway through season one as senior supervising producer. The following season she was promoted to co–executive producer, then named an executive producer in August 2019. For her work on The Talk, she earned Daytime Emmy Awards in 2016 and 2018, along with an NAACP Image Award in 2016. She is survived by her mother and a sister.