Her adolescence was marked by her father's imprisonment in 1967 at the hands of the Greek military junta, and her family's subsequent house arrest until they managed to leave Greece in 1968.
Realizing the importance of helping Greece's increasingly vulnerable population since the economic crisis, in 2014 she and AAH working in partnership with the French NGO Adie France (Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique [fr]) created Greece's first micro-credit institution: Action Finance Initiative (AFI).
The aim of the WHF is to highlight and connect innovative and creative forces underlining the need for a shift of paradigm and the creation of a new ecological civilisation.
Mitsotaki occasionally teaches a course with American economist Charles P. Oman on the political economy of international development at Sciences Po in Paris.
The first initiative in that direction was the production of the documentary film Mountain Symphonies on Konstantinos Mitsotakis life and his visionary ecological work.