Gray’s book Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic about on New York farmworkers and food politics (2014) was published by the University of California Press and won the Best Book Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Best Book Award from the Labor Project of the American Political Science Association. Her work focuses on low-wage, non-citizen workers in the agro-food industry and their civic, cultural, and economic opportunities.