Fatim Diarra

She was elected to the Parliament of Finland from the Helsinki constituency in the 2023 Finnish parliamentary election.^[3] She has been a city councilor in Helsinki since 2017, and was elected Chair of the City Council of Helsinki in June 2021.^[4] She served as a deputy chairperson of her party Green League from 2019 to 2021.^[5]

Diarra chairs Naisasialiitto Unioni, the oldest feminist organization in Finland, and in June 2021 she was elected to the Board of Administration of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL).^[6]

She is active also in the Black Lives Matter movement and for body positivity.^[7] In the past, Fatim Diarra was active in the scout movement.^[8]

Diarra was born to a Finnish mother and Malian father.^[9]