The woman who gave "the finger" to President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE’s motorcade was elected to the Loudon County, Va. Board of Supervisors in the state’s Tuesday elections. The newly-elected official, Juli Briskman said Wednesday that she feels “the same as I did in 2017, if not stronger, about what's going on in our country," according to NBC News.

When Briskman made the gesture at the motorcade from her bicycle in 2017, she told NBA, “at that moment, I had lost all hope." She would later lose her job as a government contractor after the photo went viral.

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"I came to a realization that I can't run against [Trump], but I can make change at the local level. Every state matters, every vote counts. I put my head down and went to work," she told the network.

Briskman told NBC she signed up as a poll worker the day after her firing, later volunteering for Rep. Jennifer Wexton Jennifer Lynn WextonHouse advances bill aimed at imports tied to Uyghur forced labor This week: Supreme Court fight over Ginsburg's seat upends Congress's agenda The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump's rally risk | Biden ramps up legal team | Biden hits Trump over climate policy MORE’s (D) 2018 campaign.

Although the viral image helped Briskman’s fundraising, she said, "People made assumptions that that's all I was.”

“Some people said she's just crass, there's nothing to her, she's a loud mouth, she's not going to be able to work with the other side,” she added.

Briskman emphasized that she had no regrets about the image starting her career. "Maybe a tiny, tiny regret that the nation seems to know me from a picture of my backside, but not really,” she quipped.