Libby Slate
Veteran producer Jonathan Murray has always championed diversity in his casts, from Latino AIDS activist Pedro Zamora on MTV s
The Real World to the young adults with Down syndrome on A&E s
Born This Way.
But a few years ago, he realized that his beloved television genre needed to look beyond casting to another important aspect of this issue inclusion behind the camera. Few, if any, of the crew members he worked with resembled the cast members baring their souls on camera.
With his late production partner Mary-Ellis Bunim, Murray is considered the founder of reality television; together, they launched the pioneering series