Politician and lawyer. In 2005 she obtained an American high school diploma in Watertown (South Dakota) and in 2007 passed the Abitur in Bremen at the Kippenberg-Gymnasium. She then studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. In 2010 she spent a semester on an Erasmus exchange at the University of Oslo. After graduating she completed her legal clerkship (2013–2015) at the Higher Regional Court in Bremen.

During her clerkship she completed internships at the Regional Court in Bremen, the Bremen Public Prosecutor’s Office, the German Embassy in Nairobi (Kenya), the law firm Raue LLP in Berlin, and the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York. In 2016 she interned at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in the human rights law and policy division.

From 2016 to 2018 she served as regional director of SPD Brandenburg for the Brandenburg an der Havel and Havelland district, responsible for organising election campaigns — first for Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then for Prof. Erardo Rautenberg. From 2018 to 2020 she worked as a research associate in the office of MP Dagmar Ziegler. Concurrently, from 2017 to 2019 she lectured in police and administrative law at the Berlin School of Economics and Law, training candidates for the higher police service.

She is a member of the SPD and has sat on the party board in Brandenburg an der Havel since 2018. Since 2020 she has worked as a judge in the ordinary courts of Brandenburg, in the Neuruppin judicial district. After the 2021 Bundestag elections, in which she won her first mandate, her judicial office was suspended. She successfully stood for re-election in the 2025 early Bundestag elections.