Britt was born in Alaska in 1959, and at the age of seven settled in Oregon with her family. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 1981. She earned her M.Div. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1996. While in seminary, she also studied at Ripon Theological College in Oxford, England. She has served parishes in Oregon (as a laywoman at St. Michael and All Angels, Portland, and as Assistant Rector at Christ Church, Lake Oswego) and Nevada.
In 2006 she began her current ministry as Canon to the Ordinary in Northern California; before that she was Canon for Evangelism and Congregational Development in the Diocese of El Camino Real.
She is married to Bryon Hansen, who is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located in Auburn, California where they reside. Britt has traveled extensively, and led pilgrimages to England. Throughout her professional life in the church she has stayed active in community organizations outside the church. She is enjoys hiking, snowshoeing, sailing, and the great outdoors.