As of 2011, she was spokesperson of the Ijaw Republican Assembly (IRA) as well as the United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS).
During her early years, she was taken to live with her paternal grandmother, who raised her alongside her father in Abonnema, Rivers State.
After the war ended, Briggs moved with her family to England, where she studied Marketing and got married.
[6][5] In 1998, after several years in Europe, she returned to the Niger Delta and established Agape Birthrights, a non-governmental and a non-profit organization,[7][6] having its headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Briggs, through her organization, has helped some developing areas to document cleaning of oil spillage and fighting against injustices and marginalisation.