Frederiksen was a member of the Inatsisartut (2014 to 2018) and had held the position of Minister of Independence and Agriculture (2016 to 2018) and Foreign Affairs (2017 to 2018).
[2] In 1986, Frederiksen started her career as an office clerk and worked for HK Commercial.
She spent the next five years at a sheep farm before working briefly at a grocery store in Greenland.
[2] Frederiksen started her career in politics as a city councilor for Narsaq Municipality in 2005.
[4] Frederiksen died on 21 July 2020, at the age of 55, following a long illness.