[5] She worked for the Library of Congress helping preserve and make available its collection of wax cylinder recordings.
[11] Brady hosts the folk music radio show Barren River Breakdown on WKYU-FM.
[12] She co-hosted and eventually took over hosting of the radio show Barren River Breakdown which began in 1997.
[13][better source needed] In 2015 she delivered the American Folklore Society's Don Yoder Lecture in Religious Folklife with a speech titled “A Subtle Thing Withal”: Reflections on the Ineffable, the Unspeakable, and the Risible in Vernacular Religion".
[17] In 2015, Brady gave the Don Yoder lecture at the American Folklore Society's annual meeting.