Letila Mitchell is a practising artist, director, producer, founder and artistic director of Rako Pasefika, a multidisciplinary collective of Indigenous Oceanic storytellers whose creative practice has its foundation in Rotuman culture and its links to Indigenous Oceanic communities.

Letila’s work explores Rotuman's creative practice in the context of Indigenous Oceanic knowledge with the goal of deepening this knowledge and strengthening creative practices that link it with cultural activism and biodiversity conservation. Stories of Sạsi, Pera, Lạgi, of Ocean, Land and Sky, are intrinsically interwoven into her practice, while also building knowledge and creating with family and a community of practice.

Her practice focuses on cultural entrepreneurship, transmission of cultural knowledge, arts for social change, and developing Pacific models for environmental and cultural sustainability across creative industries. She seeks to bring Indigenous Oceanic women’s knowledge to the forefront because it is this missing knowledge and voices that perpetuate the imbalances that we see in our everyday lives in Oceania.

As a woman of Oceania, her work is constantly inspired, motivated and responsive to the growing body of work by many Indigenous Oceanic women who actively work to respond to the ongoing impacts of globalization, economic and environmental challenges in the Pacific.