玛丽·安娜斯塔西娅·奥格雷迪撰写《美洲》专栏，该专栏每周一在《华尔街日报》刊登，内容涉及拉美和加拿大的政治、经济和商业。奥格雷迪于1995年8月加入该报，1999年12月成为资深社评版撰稿人。2005年11月，她被任命为编辑委员会成员。她也是总部位于印第安纳波利斯的自由基金会董事会成员。
Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes "The Americas," a weekly column on politics, economics and business in Latin America and Canada that appears every Monday in the Journal. Ms. O'Grady joined the paper in August 1995 and became a senior editorial page writer in December 1999. She was appointed an editorial board member in November 2005. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Indianapolis-based Liberty Fund.
2012年，奥格雷迪获得美国研究基金会颁发的沃尔特·贾德自由奖。2009年，她获得私营企业教育协会颁发的托马斯·杰斐逊奖。2005年，她因关于世界银行、巴西地下经济以及美国经常对拉美国家提供的错误经济建议的文章，获得国际政策网络颁发的巴斯蒂亚新闻奖。1997年，她获得美洲报业协会颁发的《每日gleaner》编辑评论奖。
In 2012 Ms. O’Grady won the Walter Judd Freedom Award from The Fund for American Studies. In 2009 Ms. O'Grady received the Thomas Jefferson Award from The Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2005 Ms. O'Grady won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism awarded by the International Policy Network for her articles on the World Bank, the underground economy in Brazil and the bad economic advice the U.S. often gives to Latin American countries. In 1997 Ms. O'Grady won the Inter American Press Association's Daily Gleaner Award for editorial commentary.
奥格雷迪获得亚森普森学院英语学士学位，以及佩斯大学金融管理硕士学位。
Ms. O'Grady received a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and an M.B.A. in financial management from Pace University.