She began her partisan political career in 2005 as a financial representative of the Greens in Tyrol, which she held until January 2010.

From 2009 to 2013, Ingrid Felipe was Regional Spokesperson for the Green Alternative Tyrol[4] and, since 13 March 2010, also as a member of the city council of Rum.

In February 2009, June 2010 and March 2012, among other things, she was the substitute of the provincial representatives Christine Baur and Maria Scheiber in meetings of the Tyrolean Landtag.

Ingrid Felipe first attracted a wide public attention by protesting against the expulsion of the then 20-year-old, Lamin Jaithe, who had been living in Tyrol for years, in May 2011.

After the National Council election, which ended in October 2017 with her party being voted out from the parliament, Felipe resigned from her function as chairwoman of the Greens two days later.

[7] In December 2022, Ingrid Felipe was appointed to the board of directors of the German (then-)railway infrastructure manager DB Netz.