Dr Latoya Aroha Rule descends from Wiradjuri - First Nations and Te Ātiawa - Māori peoples, and is a research fellow, writer and creative practitioner based on Gadigal Nura (Sydney, Australia). They sit within the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney, where they completed their doctorate, building on the Blak Space framework. They began their career in governance and audit, in the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, South Australian Government. In 2013, they moved to Social Work and Social Planning, completing their Bachelor's at Flinders University, where they received a first-class honours, University Medal, and the National Neville Bonner Memorial Scholarship for Political Science.

The breadth of Dr Rule's work analyses Indigenous rights in relation to procedural justice and laws; coronial courts, carceral and other institutional settings, and issues including deaths in custody and the expertise of families—particularly Aboriginal women—who lead truth-telling campaigns toward healing and therapeutic reforms. They continue to lead state and national reforms addressing institutional accountability and oversight failures, including as founder and national lead of the Ban Spit Hoods Coalition. This anti-torture work achieved Australia’s first legislated prohibition on spit hoods in South Australia and subsequent bans and reforms spanning jurisdictions across the continent.

Dr Rule has provided evidence to the United Nations Committee Against Torture and contributed to state and federal inquiries and reviews. Their work and words have been published across national and international academic and public platforms, and they have taught at multiple Australian universities across topics including Indigenous Studies, Social Work, Social Planning, Health Sciences, Human Rights and Politics.

They particularly enjoy the area of community development. Dr Rule serves as a Board Director of Yung Prodigy, an NGO dedicated to supporting young people with experience of parental and kinship incarceration. They also sit on the Executive of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, and are an affiliate of the UNSW Centre for Criminology, Law and Justice. Historically, Dr Rule has contributed as a member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS)'s Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Working Group and of the South Australian Equal Opportunity Commission's Anti-Racism Taskforce.

They have received national and international media coverage and recognition, including being named as a TIME “Racial Justice Guardian of the Year”, as a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Medal, and as a Deloitte & Google Out50 Leader of Australia.