In 2003, she and three others made up The Saint Patrick's Day Four, who conducted a protest action at a military recruiting center in Lansing, New York against the impending Iraq War.
She participated in the Kings Bay Plowshares action on April 4, 2018, which resulted in a conviction and sentence of one year and a day.
She attended high school in Ithaca for three years and then returned to New York City and joined the United Farm Workers.
She and six others broke into a hangar at Griffiss Air Force Base and poured bottles of their own blood onto military equipment, and hammered on a B-52's bomb bay doors, four unmounted engines, and other aircraft parts.
They poured their own blood on the walls, posters, windows, and on a US flag at a military recruiting center in Lansing, New York.
George M. Dentes, the District Attorney, offered a plea bargain in which the group would plead guilty to a reduced charge and receive no jail time.
[13] On July 24, 2014, Grady was arrested while demonstrating outside the gates of Hancock Field Air National Guard Base.
The weaponized MQ-9 Reaper drones were remotely controlled from within the base by the 174th Attack Wing of the New York State Air National Guard.