She was elected in the 2016 parliamentary election for Reykjavík South.[4] She was a candidate for Reykjavík City Council in 2018.[5]
In May 2017, while making a speech for the first time at the parliamentary discussions called Eldhúsdagsumræður in Iceland, she teared up recounting her experience as an immigrant. She mentioned her relocation to Iceland sixteen years earlier and starting as a cleaner, as "[T]here were no other jobs for a person like me who almost spoke no Icelandic. I became isolated and met with prejudice in many places. But many things have changed, so here I stand, thanks to the Icelandic educational system."[1]
