Her mother is Lenore DiLeo Berner, a jazz singer and a former principal at MS51 (William Alexander Middle School in Brooklyn).

[2] She attended the University of Wisconsin, where she played tennis[3] and pursued a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Arts Rhetoric with a Certificate in Gender and Women's Studies.

[2][4] Early in Berner's career, she worked at the digital media company Betches.

She also has become very popular on TikTok and other social media sites for her comedy interview bits, like "Han on the Street.

[17][8] Compared to the competitive environment she experienced as a nationally ranked teen tennis player, Berner described the pressures of standup as "like being at after-school arts and crafts".