Currently she works with organizations such as OSCE, European Commission, NDI,UNDP and others, as well as a visiting lecturer at Stockholm School of Economics in Riga teaching political economy courses.

[citation needed] From 1997 to 1999, she worked at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as a correspondent and international news analyst in Riga, Latvia and Prague, Czech Republic.

[citation needed] In May 2010, members of the organization announced that they would be running in October 2010 parliamentary elections on the list of Unity electoral bloc from the political party Civic Union.

[citation needed] In 2011, the parliament was dissolved by then President Valdis Zatlers, quoting increasing influence of oligarchs in parliamentary decision making.

She nevertheless served as a Member of Parliament for a full term after the Minister of Finance Andris Vilks took office in November 2011 and suspended his parliamentary mandate.

[citation needed] Čigāne along with four other MPs (Ilze Viņķele, Ints Dālderis, Andrejs Judins and Aleksejs Loskutovs) left the Unity party in July 2017,[3] and became a founding member of the Movement For!