She is the Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science at Barnard College.
Her dissertation, Achieving Perfect Secrecy Using Correlated Random Variables, was supervised by Michael J.
In January 2019, she moved to Barnard College, as the inaugural director of a new computer science program there.
[3] Wright was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017 "for contributions to applied cryptography and privacy".
[6] In 2019, she won the Distinguished Service Award of SIGACT, part of the Association for Computing Machinery, "for her 11-year leadership of DIMACS, particularly in continuing and expanding the research and educational missions of DIMACS, for promoting diversity in computer science, and for using her expertise in privacy and security to help shape public policy on a national level".