A member of the Social Democratic Party, she was elected to Parliament in 1907 as one of the first group of female MPs.

[1] She attended industrial school and worked as a maid and seamstress in Helsinki.

[1] She was a course director for the Ideal Union and headed the youth section of the Temperance movement.

[1] During her time in parliament she sat on the Committee on Legal Affairs,[1] and attracted attention and criticism for dressing in an upper-class style.

[2][3] During the Finnish Civil War she was a member of the Red Food Command.