Mimoza Kusari was exposed to politics and public service in 2003 when she was offered the position of spokesperson and political adviser to then Prime Minister of Kosovo Bajram Rexhepi. The first woman to have such a position and impartial in its political beliefs, she was the face and voice of the Kosovo government for more than a year at a time when Kosovo past returned to the March 2004 riots. She announced her time out from politics at the end of 2004, due to her marriage with Arben Lila, and her son being born in the following year. Mimoza Kusari added the surname of her husband's last name and now uses Kusari Lila as its official name thereafter.