Dominick D · CC BY-SA 2.0

A television writer and showrunner who created Weeds, the Showtime dark comedy about a suburban widow who starts dealing marijuana, and Orange Is the New Black, the Netflix prison drama that helped establish streaming as a home for ambitious, ensemble-driven television. Her shows built their reputations on making unglamorous, often overlooked lives — dealers, inmates — into the center of the story rather than its margins.