She has spent her political career representing her home state of São Paulo, having served as state representative from 2011 to 2019.

[2] Ota is married to local politician Masataka Ota, and the couple have three children: Ives, Ises, and Vanessa.

In 1997, Ives, who was only 8 years old at the time, was kidnapped and murdered by one of Masataka's body guards, leading Ota and her husband to campaign against violent crime in Brazil.

[3] Ota voted in favor of the impeachment motion of then-president Dilma Rousseff.

[4] She would later vote in favor of opening a similar corruption investigation against Rousseff's successor Michel Temer,[5] and voted against the proposed 2017 Brazilian labor reforms.