She was an intern at the office of Pirate MEP Amelia Andersdotter in the European Parliament.

[1] Ásta replaced Jón Þór Ólafsson as Pirate Party MP for Reykjavik Constituency South in 2015 when he stepped down from the role.

Explaining the Pirate Party's success in the polls, Ásta said "Iceland is an unusual place, politically speaking.

In Iceland, there’s a lot of social conservatism, even though people want to be libertarians as far as the market, etcetera.

"[2] Since 2016, Ásta has been the deputy chair of the Pirate Party's parliamentary group.

[3] Following the release of the Panama Papers in April 2016 that implicated, among others, then-Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Iceland saw a number of anti-government protests.