Briskman interned for the "Kuwait Times", where she made news for escaping to Saudi Arabia as the Iraqis invaded Kuwait. She worked at the U.S. Department of State as a community liaison officer for eight years, including embassies in Riga, Latvia and Almaty, Kazakhstan. After working at the State Department, she was in the admissions and marketing departments at Village Green Day School. She was a marketing analyst at several companies until the beginning of 2019, including as chief marketing officer of a health-care company in Chantilly, Virginia. She received a certificate in digital marketing from Georgetown University in 2017.