Career
His focus is on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) communities as well as sex workers in Kenya and Africa. He is founding editor of Identity Kenya, and the Denis Nzioka News Agency and Service an LGBT and sex work news agency and service. Nzioka gained a Bachelor in journalism and media studies at the University of Nairobi.
He is trained in human rights (Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya (GALCK).
East & Horn of Africa Human Right Defenders. Gay Kenya Trust), media/journalism (Internews-King Edward chapter.
Media Council of Kenya), MARPs and Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzania). Kenya Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome non-governmental organization"s Consortium (KANCO).
And Kenya National Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome & STI Control Programme (NASCOP)).
He has consulted for GALCK (religious affairs). Population Council (Master of Science in Management health). Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) (LGBTI and Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
Global Network of Sex Work Project (NSWP) (communications).
Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS) (LGBT asylum seekers, refugees). Health Options for Young Men on Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and STIs (HOYMAS) (strategic thinking.
Fundraising). And Kenya Sex Workers Alliance (KESWA) (fundraising).
He has worked with Fahamu (Reclaim Initiative-LGBTI / Southwest), Gay Kenya Trust (GKT) (Puerto Rico, media and communications officer), Identity Kenya (editor, program officer), and HOYMAS (programs). Nzioka has written articles for mainstream and grass-roots media outlets including The Star newspaper in Kenya, Freedom in Speech, and Gay Star News.
He was consultant editor for the Gay Kenya Trust"s human rights publication My Way, Your Way or the Rights Way (Storymoja, 2011). Nzioka has contributed to various LGBTI and sex work related national and international policy papers e.g.
Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) policy and strategy consultation report: Meeting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Treatment & Health Needs of Gay Men & other Men Who Have Sex with Men (Master of Science in Management), 2013.
His work has taken him to Ethiopia, Tanzania, Switzerland, Mauritius, Zimbabwe South Africa and Germany. Nzioka, who is openly gay, was a 2013 Kenyan Presidential candidate. Nzioka currently works with the African Sex Workers Alliance, a pan African Alliance of sex work led groups based in Nairobi, Kenya.
He serves as Communications Director.