The founding group of men and women, with Guttenbeil-Likiliki as the director, created an organization to educate and advocate for the elimination of domestic violence and provide support for victims. The move was predicated by a desire to retain the autonomy of an NGO without governmental oversight. In 2009 Guttenbeil-Likiliki and 16 of the 17 staff members employed at the Tonga National Centre for Women and Children (TNCWC) walked off of their jobs and created the Women and Children Crisis Centre. In 2008, she was advocating for alternative energy solutions as a method of reducing cost to women and children for basic utilities. Activism īeginning around 2005, Guttenbeil-Likiliki founded and worked as coordinator of the Women's Action Group for Change, urging the government to allow women to participate in government consultations regarding education, poverty reduction and economic development. She also was a co-host with Arnold Manu of Tonga's indigenous music video program, Talamahe'a.
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She has worked as a DJ for Kool 90FM – Radio Tonga 2, also as Senior Presenter, Senior Producer and Marketing manager for Radio & TV Tonga, and was the host of Juice Music produced by Television Tonga. Her Bachelor of Laws was completed at the University of the South Pacific and Likiliki is currently pursuing a Master of Laws with an emphasis on legal reform in relation to Temporary Special Measures or increasing women's representation in parliament. She earned a post graduate diploma in International Broadcast Journalism from the Thomson Foundation in collaboration with the University of Cardiff, Wales. in Film, TV and Media Communications (Hons) from the University of Auckland.
Guttenbeil-Likiliki has 3 older siblings who were all born in Tonga however raised mostly in New Zealand.
ʻOfa-Ki-Levuka Louise Guttenbeil was born in New Zealand, to Tongan born parents who migrated to New Zealand during the early 1970s to work in the industrial boom that called for low skilled migrant workers.
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