Fraad was born to Jewish parents, Lewis M. Fraad, a pediatrician, and Irma London, who both had leftist sympathies.[4][5] She is married to Marxian economist and intellectualRichard D. Wolff. Wolff and Fraad have two children together. She and Wolff co-write for Economy and Psychology, a blog on the interface of those two topics.[1] She has two sisters, Julie Fraad andRosalyn Baxandall.
Her father worked for the Comintern in Vienna from 1932 to 1936 and was a member of theCommunist Party of America from 1929 to 1957.[4] Her maternal grandfather was Horace London, the brother and campaign manager ofMeyer London, later a U.S. Representative.[4] An activist her entire life, Fraad has contributed to works and been a founding member in movements like thesecond-wave women's movement. She gives regular talks on the Julianna Forlano Morning show on WBAI, MK Mendoza on KSFR, andWomen's Spaces on WBBK. The latest work she contributed to wasKnowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees.[6]
Fraad's uncle wasEphraim London, Irma's brother, and through him, her maternal cousin wasSheila Michaels, a feminist and activist, whom Ephraim never publicly acknowledged as his daughter.[7]
Class Struggle on the Home Front, (w/Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009[8]
Imagine Living in a Socialist USA: Imagine…Personal Emotional and Sexual Life Without Capitalism (w/Tess Fraad Wolff), (Edited F. Goldin, D. & S. Smith), New York: HarperCollins, Jan 2014.[8]
Bringing It All Back Home by Harriet Fraad, Richard Wolff, et al. | Apr 1, 1994
Rethinking Marxism (Vol 9 | No. 4 | 1996/97) by "At Home with Incest" by Harriet Fraad, " Juha Koivisto and Veikko Pietila on W. F. Haug and Projekt Ideologie-Theorie, Roby Rajan Henry A. Giroux on Paulo Freire, | Jan 1, 1996
