Elin has been voluntarily active in forest nature conservation since 2003, first in The field biologists and then in Protect the Forest. She has immersed herself in and forest ecology and has also sporadically worked with at the University of Gothenburg and Umeå University, and is co-author of two scientific articles in Nature Conservation and plant ecology. On a daily basis, she works as a university teacher in mathematics at Chalmers.

She has 20 years of experience in board work in non-profit associations. In addition to being treasurer and/or spokesperson in Protect the Forest for about for ten years, she has previously been treasurer and lay auditor in the field biologists, as well as the chairman and lay auditor of a trade union.