After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts, Nancy Brady worked for 13 years in the biotech and pharmaceuticalindustry where she specialized in sales and marketing. After leaving Pfizer in December 2011, she completed her Masters of Public Health at Boston University. She is currently a Public Health Technical Advisor at John Snow, Inc. in Boston, Mass. Concurrent with those endeavors, she has spent the last 15 years actively engaged in a variety of philanthropic activities at both US- and African-based nonprofit organizations whose focuses have included: HIV/AIDS services, healthcare capacity building, child assault prevention, Rwandan rape survivors and their families, youth empowerment, and microfinance. Brady has been an active board member whose activities have included program and resource development, fundraising, partnership building, entrepreneurship, strategic planning, training and facilitation, and public speaking.

Brady has spent much time traveling and working in less economically developed countries. At Pfizer, she was awarded a six-month Pfizer Global Health Fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda through Accordia.