Nicole Leigh Mosty

Nichole Leigh Mosty (born 19 October 1972) is an American-born Icelandic politician from Bright Future who served in the Parliament of Iceland.

Early life Mosty was born in Three Rivers, Michigan.

Education Mosty holds a degree from the University of Iceland. Mosty moved from the United States to Iceland in 1999.

Career She was elected in the 2016 parliamentary election for Reykjavík South. She was a candidate for Reykjavík City Council in 2018.

In May 2017, while making a speech for the first time at the parliamentary discussions called Eldhúsdagsumræður in Iceland, she teared up recounting her experience as an immigrant. She mentioned her relocation to Iceland sixteen years earlier and starting as a cleaner, as "here were no other jobs for a person like me who almost spoke no Icelandic. I became isolated and met with prejudice in many places. But many things have changed, so here I stand, thanks to the Icelandic educational system."