I am a Strategist and Human Rights advocate with specific interest in LGBTIQ rights, conversations, and capacity development for emerging Sexual Health and Rights activists and organizations in West Africa. My work focuses on expanding public knowledge and discourse on LGBTIQ rights and issues through storytelling, public education, legal representation, inclusive policy advocacy, and movement building.

My pathway to LGBTIQ rights and advocacy started in 2005 as a founding member of The Initiative for Equal Rights—one of the leading LGBTIQ rights organizations in Nigeria with initiatives in Anglophone West Africa. That journey started with me as a volunteer through being the executive director from 2013 until 2018. It was a journey of learning, sharing, understanding, and doing some extraordinary work with the team to fast-track LGBTIQ rights dialogue, providing legal support and representation, HIV prevention education and treatment, and telling the stories of our communities.

My years of experience has taught me that social change is necessary to achieving legal and social inclusion. With this understanding and through my effort at TIERs, we created a series of programs including the annual Human Rights, Sexuality and The Law Symposium, web and television series, movies, and documentaries as a way of sharing the lived experiences of LGBTIQ persons, interrogating social and legal discrimination while expanding public knowledge and discourse.