Ohisalo served as the Green League's interim chairman after Touko Aalto stepped down in September 2018. She was the only candidate in the Green League leadership election that was held in June 2019.[5] She co-chaired the Union of Green Youth and Students from 2013 to 2014[6][7] and has been a member of the Helsinki City Council since 2017 and an MP since 2019.
Early life and studies
Ohisalo was born in 1985 in Vesala in eastern Helsinki. She lived her childhood in poverty in the suburbs of Helsinki,as her parents were often unemployed,and she spent one year in a shelter. Her father's alcohol problem led to the separation of her parents. Her mother,however,continued her studies and worked in the evenings and on weekends. Ohisalo was already active in football and athletics at a young age.[8]
In 2017,Ohisalo defended her doctorate in sociology at the University of Eastern Finland's Department of Social Sciences.[10][11] For her doctoral work,she studied food aid and long-term homelessness at the Socca Social Expertise Center in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area,under the auspices of the Helsinki City Social and Health Agency. During her studies from 2014 to 2017,Ohisalo was a member of the Federation of Higher Education Students in Social Sciences.[12]
Ohisalo has been a member of the Green Union Social and Health Policy Programming Group from 2010 to 2011.[16]
Ohisalo was chairman of the International Affairs Working Group of the Federation of Green Youth and Students in 2011.[9] In 2012,she was a member of the board of the organization and responsible for international affairs.[9]
In 2012,Ohisalo was chairman of the Youth Working Group on the Future of Nordic Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[17] She was also a member of the board of directors of the Nordic Youth League in 2012.[9]
In the 2012 Helsinki municipal elections,Ohisalo received 612 votes and became a deputy delegate.[9][18][19][20]
In 2013,she was a member of the Youth Board and a member of the Board of the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District for the remainder of 2014 to 2017. She was elected to the City Council of Helsinki with 4,400 votes in the 2017 municipal elections.[21]
In 2013,she was elected co-chairman of the Federation of Green Youth and Students together with Veli-Matti Partanen and in 2014 together with Aaro Häkkinen.[7][6] She was a member of the party council from 2013 to 2015.[22]
In June 2015,she was elected vice-chairman of the Green League.[25]
She was also a candidate for the 2015 parliamentary elections and received 4,087 votes,which was only 109 votes less than necessary to be elected.[26][27]
From 2015 to 2018,she was a member of the parish council of Helsinki and the council of the parish of Paavali (Saint Paul).[28]
Ohisalo was nominated for the chairmanship of the Green League in the pre-election vote among party members before the 2017 Tampere party congress and attracted national attention after coming very close to second place among the six candidates,despite being relatively unknown.[29] On 18 September 2018,she was appointed as the official vice chairman of the Greens while Touko Aalto was on sick leave.[30]
Ohisalo was nominated for the parliamentary election in 2019 and became a member of parliament in the constituency of Helsinki. She received 11,797 votes and was the country's seventh most popular female candidate.[31][32]
In June 2019,the Greens decided to present Ohisalo as their choice for the post of minister of the interior in the Antti Rinne cabinet.[33]
In June 2019,Ohisalo was elected chairman of the Greens at the party congress in the city of Pori.[4]
In the 2023 parliamentary election,Ohisalo was re-elected with 6,937 votes.[34] However,as the Greens suffered an election defeat,Ohisalo announced that she would not seek another term as chairman. In June 2023,she was replaced by Sofia Virta.[35]
Playing video games –including those by Nintendo –has been an important hobby for her. At one time she considered applying for game designer training.[11]
Ohisalo's spouse is Miika Johansson.[40] In July 2021,she announced that she was pregnant with their first child.[41]
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