Education
Brady graduated from Evanston Township High School and then attended one year at Hampshire College.
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Born in Chicago, Brady was the eldest of five children born to Charles, an attorney and businessman, and Susanne Brady, a Democratic community activist who served on the Evanston city council. Along with several other students, she staged an anti-nuclear demonstration at The Pentagon, where she was arrested for damaging federal property and served 14 days in jail. Following her release, she enrolled at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, from which she would eventually graduate.
In 1983, Brady married Tim O"Connor with whom she had two children.
In 1986, Brady and her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she and O"Connor both got jobs at Nature"s Fresh Northwest, an organic grocery store, where she worked in several different jobs within the company. In 1995, Brady left Nature"s and worked for several technology companies, eventually becoming a vice president at Once, an email marketing company, in 1999.
Brady did not serve as an employee of the chain, which now has 18 stores, but claims to have helped develop its model: blending organic foods with conventional brands on the shelves. In 2001, she joined Ecotrust as vice president of marketing and information services.
She left the company in 2005.
In 2007, Governor Ted Kulongoski appointed her to the Oregon Health Fund Board, a panel created by the Oregon state legislature to develop reforms to Oregon"s health care system. One panel proposal resulted in legislation that added health care for 85,000 children in the state in 2009. She considered a run for United States. Senate in 2008, but decided against lieutenant
In May 2011, she announced her candidacy for mayor of Portland in the 2012 mayoral election.
