Mar­ra B. Gad is an award-win­ning author, speak­er and inde­pen­dent writer/​producer. As pres­i­dent of Egad! Pro­duc­tions, she over­sees the devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion of script­ed tele­vi­sion series and films. A grate­ful child of adop­tion, Mar­ra speaks inter­na­tion­al­ly about her own tran­sra­cial adop­tion in 1970, and her expe­ri­ences being Black/​White bira­cial and Jew­ish through the lens of her debut mem­oir, THE COL­OR OF LOVE: A Sto­ry of a Mixed-Race Jew­ish Girl, win­ner of the 2020 Mid­west Book Award for Autobiography/​Memoir. Mar­ra proud­ly holds a BA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois at Urbana-Cham­paign and an MA in Jew­ish His­to­ry from Bal­ti­more Hebrew Insti­tute at Tow­son University.