Keesha Mori Booth

Pasifika Woman • Cultural Strategist • Storyteller of Heart & Systems Change.

Keesha Booth is a proud Pasifika woman of Papua New Guinean and Australian heritage, a mother to Zion and Zan, and a leader who walks between systems and spirit. As General Manager of Grass Skirt Project, Keesha brings over a decade of experience working across grassroots, policy, and program design, centring Indigenous knowledge systems, cultural restoration, and trauma-informed leadership.

Her leadership is not just informed by qualifications, but by lineage. The daughter of Hevea who migrated from PNG’s #600way in pursuit of possibility, Keesha grew up watching the cost of silence in systems never built for people like her.

Now, she works to break cycles not just manage them.

Motherhood deepened Keesha’s commitment to truth-telling and reconnected her to ancestral knowledge through Talanoa and cultural storytelling. She leads with courage, compassion and clarity, building brave spaces where communities, especially young Pasifika voices, are empowered to speak, heal, and lead.

Keesha’s work is grounded in a fierce belief: that our stories are not side-notes they are blueprints. And that leadership rooted in culture, heart and collective memory is not only possible- it’s powerful.