Rivera was a candidate in the Democratic primary for New York's 10th congressional district in 2022,[1] but lost, coming in fourth place, behind Dan Goldman, State Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, and Congressman Mondaire Jones.

[citation needed] Rivera worked as director of programs and services at Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), a local nonprofit organization focused on neighborhood housing and preservation, economic development, and community revitalization.

Rogers, a former corporate lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell, owns a growing coffee business, a Grand Street co-op apartment in Lower Manhattan, which he rents out, and a small family trust fund.

[15] She also introduced a legislation to create a patient advocate’s office within the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to help New Yorkers navigate the healthcare system.

[18] She introduced a legislation to require child protective specialists to explain to parents or caretakers about their rights during initial contact of an ACS investigation.

[20] In an effort to crack down on illegal hotel operators, she introduced a bill in June 2018 to require short-term rental companies such as Airbnb to report host data to the city.

[29] Rivera is the only top candidate in the Democratic primary to not support allocating 100 percent of residential units in the proposed 5 World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan as affordable housing.

[30] She has raised a large amount of money from major real estate developers and lobbyists, including billionaire real estate developer Jed Walentas of Two Trees,[29] Kirk Goodrich, Don Capoccia, Robert Levine of RAL Companies,[31] Bruce Teitelbaum, and Daniel R. Tishman of Tishman Realty & Construction, the firm that managed the building of One World Trade Center.

[29] Rivera drew criticisms of treating LGBTQ+ New Yorkers as "political chess pieces" when she expressed support for religious exemptions that target members of the community in response to a question about her stance on the well-known same-sex wedding cake case in Colorado during an interview with Hamodia.

[35] She was also called out by then-rival congressional candidate Dan Goldman for her investments in defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, as well as the gun company Smith & Wesson.

[37] She and her husband, Jamie Rogers, a Connecticut College and Cornell Law School graduate,[43] lived on the Lower East Side[44] until June 2021 when they moved to Kips Bay.