Emele Ugavule is a Tokelauan Uvean Fijian storyteller. Her research and practice area of interest is Oceanic Indigenous-led storytelling, exploring the themes of temporality, memory, kinship and knowledge transmission. A graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, she has worked with various artists and organisations across Australia and the Pacific. Emele is the host of the Unravel & Solwata Kin podcasts, Creative director of Talanoa and the founder of Studio Kiin. She is a recipient of fellowships from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Creative Australia and Creative NZ, Create NSW, Think + Do Foundation, Critical Path and Playwriting Australia, and is an alumni of the Fibre Fale Tautai leadership camp. As an orator, Emele has been a Toi Hourua keynote speaker at the Aotearoa Digital Arts Network Symposium in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and has presented at events including the United Nations AI For Good summit in Zurich, Switzerland and Nuit Blanche in Tkaronto.