Jody Gray is the associate university librarian for Research at the University of Minnesota, where she provides strategic leadership for advancing research support services across the libraries. Her professional focus is on bringing a strong commitment to creating inclusive and culturally responsive library services.

From 2005 to 2015, Jody served as the diversity outreach librarian for the University of Minnesota Libraries. She later became the director of the Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services at the American Library Association (ALA) in Chicago, where she led national efforts to embed equity and inclusion into library practices and policy.

Jody holds an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a BA from the University of Minnesota Morris. She is a past president and the current executive director of the American Indian Library Association (AILA), where she continues to advocate for Indigenous representation and leadership in librarianship.

Jody is a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux (Lakota) Tribe of South Dakota and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.