Davis Otieno mostly known as Davis Tafari is a human right defender, a member of Dandora Community Justice Center, a citizen journalist working with HoodTV an online TV station and the social justice movement official photographer. Apart from being a human right defender he has a small group of talented children from the Dandora community that he teaches/directs them in theater performances. He is also a small business entrepreneur who sells shoes online. As a Human Right defender he directs the social justice centers traveling theater and also champions campaigns against police brutality and extra judicial execution. He is an ecological justice champion, and a member of the social justice centers organic intellectual where he write articles and does reflections on progressive books 

He started his human rights work back in 2017 as a community organizer championing against police brutality and later joined Dandora community Justice Center in 2018 as a Photographer/Videographer up to date. He is the founder of the social justice centers traveling theater which started as Dandora community justice center theater team later extended to the larger movement. Since its existence they have been able to travel country wide advocating for social justice through art. 

He is also co-founder of HoodTV online TV station which has been able to highlight the plight of the oppressed community through a program known as State of the Hood. He has been able to document demonstrations held by the social justice movement and other progressive organizations. He has also participated in the Climb for Justice Campaign as a photographer while in the social justice centers organic intellectuals. He has been able to record videos on the struggle of the poor and oppressed working class.

The most outstanding thing about him is that he has been able to address issues of criminalization of dreadlocks among the poor youths living in informal settlements. Through community forums he has been able to organize and sensitize community members on issues affecting them and how best they can be resolved through the implementation of the 2010 Kenyan constitution. As a young rasta man from the informal settlements of Dandora he has been arrested countless times in the name of dreadlocks and being in the front line leading demonstrations against police brutality.

The biggest challenge he experiences is working without a camera of his own. If he gets the award it will help him acquire his personal camera that will make it easier for him to continue documenting issues that are affecting his community and also documenting the good work that most of the human right defenders are doing. It will also boost his morale as a young Human Rights Defender from the informal settlements to continue advocating for dignified life for the oppressed and continuing defending rights.