Background
Anna Kontula was born on 30 March 1977 in Pori, Satakunta, Finland and completed her master"s thesis in 2002 on the 1970s student movement.
Anna Kontula was born on 30 March 1977 in Pori, Satakunta, Finland and completed her master"s thesis in 2002 on the 1970s student movement.
She has completed multiple research projects on sex work in Finland, such as a 2008 report published by the University of Tampere, and her work evaluating criminalization of prostitution and violence toward women.
She is also the party"s City Councilwoman for Tampere. She researches many areas which evaluate work restrictions, cultural norms and perceptions including public breast feeding, aging in construction workers, racism"s impact not only on where people can work, but where they can live, and many other topics. In 2004, Kontula was elected in the municipal elections for Tampere City Council.
In 2008, she was elected again and for both 2008 and 2012, Kontula had the second largest number of votes in the Left Alliance.
Kontula was elected to the Finnish parliament in 2011 for the Pirkanmaa constituency of the Left Alliance.
She has served as a vice Chairman of the Sex Industry Association and was involved in many organizations dealing with feminism, and social activism during her education.
She is a member of the Committee for the Future and the Employment and Equality Committee, having previously served on the Constitutional Law Committee and the Employment and Equality Committee.