Bridget grew up in suburban New York, where she worked on water management issues through local government while studying geography. After graduating with her B.A., she worked in Malaysia for a year with a Fulbright teaching grant, and then interned with the International Water Management Institute in Laos. Prior to her studies at Princeton, she joined charity: water, where she spent five years on a water, sanitation and hygiene grant-making team and lived in the Queens apartment where Spider-Man ate a sandwich in the Homecoming movie (2017). During the summer of 2021, she completed her MPA internship with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). After completing the MPA, Bridget plans to work on domestic water and environmental policy.