Hi, I’m Jenni Alasuutari!

I’m glad you found your way to my page. I’m a mother of two boys from Vantaa, an outdoor enthusiast, and an active defender of our local forests.

Currently, I serve as a Green Party deputy councilor in the Vantaa and Kerava Wellbeing Services County and as a member of the council of the UUVI/Helsinki-Uusimaa Outdoors (uuvi.fi).

I spent my childhood in Rekola, Vantaa. I attended grades 1 and 2 at Rekola Primary School, then transferred to the music class at Mikkola Primary School.

As a child, I was involved in scouting (Rekolan Metsäsiskot), played violin at the Vantaa Music Institute (Vantaan musiikkiopisto), and did synchronized skating with both the Tikkurila and Helsinki figure skating clubs (Tikkurilan taitoluisteluklubi and Helsingin taitoluisteluklubi). I also took part in athletics training with Korson Kunto.

I completed lower secondary school in Koivukylä and continued my studies at the Kallio Upper Secondary School of Performing Arts in Helsinki. During high school, I spent a year as an exchange student in Australia.

After high school, I moved to Helsinki and earned my Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Hanken School of Economics (Svenska handelshögskolan). During my university studies, I also spent a year as an exchange student in Italy.

In 2020, my family and I moved back to Vantaa, to the Metsola district. Today, we live in Päiväkumpu with my family. As a family, we enjoy swimming, spending time in nature, skiing, and cycling. My own hobbies include working with clay and, occasionally, knitting. I also love movies.

Recently, I’ve been actively working to protect the riverside forest in Päiväkumpu from being cleared for construction. I believe that the best gift we can give future generations in Vantaa is to preserve our diverse local nature and improve its condition. Forests in Vantaa should not be cut down—instead, new construction should primarily be planned for unused plots, old industrial areas, and other underutilized lands.

I want to ensure that in the future, the voices of residents are better heard in the decision-making of our city. I’ve studied service design, which focuses on developing services from a human-centered perspective, involving users directly in the process. Dialogue with residents can be fostered using service design tools such as surveys, interviews, ideation workshops, and observation. Today, we also have a wide range of digital tools to collect and consider citizens’ opinions.