[8] After graduating from Barnard, she spent several years working as a journalist at Pacifica Radio and at the media-watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
[7] After graduation, Sud directed MTV's The Real World before moving to Los Angeles, where she was hired as an episode writer for the short-lived 2002 television series Push, Nevada.
[9][10] In 2018, Sud developed the limited series Seven Seconds, a Netflix crime drama inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, and starring Regina King.
The same year, Regina King won the Emmy[11] for lead actress in a limited series for her performance in Seven Seconds.
In 2020, Sud developed The Stranger, a Quibi horror web series about a rideshare driver who is terrorized by her sociopathic passenger.