Birgitta Jónsdóttir Politician

Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is a politician (poetician) and an activist member of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, formerly representing the Citizens' Movement and The Movement, but now representing the Pirate Party. Her district was the Reykjavik Constituency South. for the Civic Movement but the South West for the Pirate Party. She was elected to the Icelandic parliament in April 2009 on behalf of a movement aiming for democratic reform beyond party politics of left and right. Birgitta has been an activist and a spokesperson for various groups, such as WikiLeaks, Saving Iceland and Friends of Tibet in Iceland. She also co-founded Icelandic Modern Media Initiative with information activist Smári McCarthy, and currently serves as a chair on the International Modern Media Institute.