Ingrid Felipe

Ingrid Felipe (with full name Ingrid Felipe Saint Hilaire; born August 22, 1978 in Hall i. T.) is an Austrian politician and, since June 26, 2017, is the acting federal spokeswoman of the Greens. Since May 24, 2013, she has also been the second deputy of the Landeshauptmann in Tyrol.

Ingrid Felipe grew up in Rum and, from 1984 to 1988, went to the Volksschule there. From 1988 to 1992, she visited the Hauptschule Kettenbrücke Innsbruck. In 1997, she graduated from the Handelsakademie in Innsbruck. Subsequently, Ingrid Felipe began to study business administration at the University of Innsbruck. Besides this, she was also involved in handball in Innsbruck, initially as an active player, later also as a functionary or project manager for various events. From 1994 onwards, she also worked as a waitress and catering employee, and from 2002 onwards, as an assistant to the management in restaurants, and continued this activity after gaining her degree in 2003. From 2006 to 2012, Ingrid Felipe worked as an office manager at the Parson architectural office.

Felipe's political career was already marked during her school days. In her school age, she and her sister got the church to agree that in their parish of Rum, they were allowed to act as servers in the church, even though they were girls. In 1994 and 1995, she was elected as a school spokesperson for the Handelsakademie and Handelsschule Innsbruck. In 1995, she became a teacher of higher education in Tyrol.

She began her partisan political career in 2005 as a financial representative of the Greens in Tyrol, which she held until January 2010. In addition, she was a substitute delegate of the Enlarged Federal Executive Committee (EBV) of the Greens from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2013, Ingrid Felipe was Regional Spokesperson for the Green Alternative Tyrol and since March 13, 2010, also as a member of the city council of Rum. In February 2009, June 2010 and March 2012, among other things, she was the substitute of the provincial representatives Christine Baur and Maria Scheiber in meetings of the Tyrolean Landtag.

Ingrid Felipe first attracted a wide public attention by protesting against the expulsion of the then 20-year-old, Lamin Jaithe, who had been living in Tyrol for years, in May 2011.

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