[3] A vocational counselor and government manager, Primavera was first elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006, after an unsuccessful campaign in 2004.

[1] In 1990, Primavera joined the Rocky Mountain Regional Brain Injury Center as Education & Training Coordinator.

In 1994, she was hired as a customer service manager for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, a job she held until 2001.

She joined the Colorado Department of Revenue in 2001, working as a director first in the Titles and Registration division, and then in Emissions and Constituent Relations from 2003 through 2004.

Bill Owens to the Independent Living Council, and has been a member of State Workers Advocating for the Youth and the Medicaid Advisory Committee for Persons with Disabilities.

[1] At the time of her election to the state legislature, she was program director for Learning Services Corp.[1] Primavera has also operated a small dog-grooming business since her teenage years.

2004 After being elected secretary of the Boulder County Democratic Party in 2003,[2] Primavera campaigned for the state legislature against Republican Bill Berens in 2004, losing with 47% of the popular vote.

[19] Primavera won re-election, defeating Kliebenstein by several thousand votes, or 56 percent of ballots cast,[20] a greater margin than her first election win in 2006.

[29] Among Primavera's first bills were measures intended to improve patient safety by addressing mistakes made in health care administration,[30][31] to revise obsolete statutes pertaining to the Colorado Department of Revenue, to regulate movers and to increase funding for health clinics.

[40] During the session, she was one of only a few Democrats to oppose a controversial plan by Governor Bill Ritter to freeze property tax rates to increase public school funding.

[46] She also sponsored legislation to create a tax checkoff for the Adult Stem Cells Cure Fund, designed to promote umbilical cord blood donations.

[68] She also sponsored a bill allowing a nurse or qualified individual to administer an epi-pen to a student suffering anaphylactic shock.

[69] 2014 In the most recent session Rep. Primavera sponsored legislation extending the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment and Prevention program through 2019.

[77][78] On November 8, 2022, Primavera and Polis won re-election to a second term, defeating Republicans Heidi Ganahl and Danny Moore, receiving 58.5% of the vote.

[83] Primavera, a resident of Broomfield, Colorado,[2] has been a member of the Broomfield Health and Human Services Advisory Committee, the 17th Judicial District’s Crime Victim Compensation Board, Denver Public Schools Special Education Advisory Committee, and the boards of the Susan M. Duncan Family YMCA and Chester House.