 Mukabalisa decided to become involved in politics in 2000, after the genocide and the transition period that followed the arrival of Paul Kagame as President of the Republic.She said that the years spent in a country where "human rights were seriously damaged" got her to make a decision to start her fight against injustice.She joined the Liberal Party of Rwanda which at the time was not the ruling party at the time but supported Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front party.