Ray is an organiser, activist, and writer.
They served from 2008–2024 on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its work to ban nuclear weapons.
Ray provides analysis and advocacy at the United Nations on matters of nuclear disarmament, autonomous weapons, the arms trade, military spending, and more.
They promote feminist, queer, and anti-imperialist approaches to end weapons and war, and work to connect transnational and local efforts to abolish militarism, the carceral system, borders, and other forms of state violence.
Ray is author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and currently writes a column at CounterPunch.
They are a Visiting Researcher at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security.
Ray holds an Honours BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and an MA in Politics from The New School for Social Research.
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages
Haymarket Books, 2022
