In 2020, she ran as a district administrator for
Siegen-Wittgenstein in the
local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia. However, she lost to . At the beginning of the legislative period in October 2021, she is a member of the Bundestag for the Alliance 90/The Greens. She ran in the
Bundestag constituency of Siegen-Wittgenstein and entered the German Bundestag via list position 23 on the state list. In parliament, Kraft serves on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment, the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection and the Subcommittee on Foreign Cultural and Educational Policy. She is also part of the German-Nordic Parliamentary Friendship Group, which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. == Other activities ==