[3][4] She is the mother of FTX and Alameda Research co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried, convicted on seven counts of criminal fraud as CEO of the now-defunct and bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, alongside other company insiders.

[4][7] Fried served from 1983 to 1984 as a judicial law clerk for Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

[9][10] She has offered critiques on philosopher Robert Nozick's theory of property[11] and psychologist John Money's work on "fetally androgenized girls.

"[12] Her academic work centers on a branch of ethics known as consequentialism, or the idea that the results of our actions are more important than abstract notions of right and wrong.

[14] Fried is a co-founder of the political fundraising organization Mind the Gap, which advocates support for Democratic Party candidates and funds get-out-the-vote groups.