Daniel is a self-driven individual who has a strong passion in realizing a sustainable society through offering his skills and expertise to give solutions to the current evolving community problems. He draws his motivation from the plight of the sexual and gender marginalized persons in our society who are living in absolute rejection due to their sexual orientation and gender identity, which the greater community does not understand.

He is a clinician and qualified researcher currently serving as the executive director and the founder of Nyanza Rift Valley Western Kenya LGBTI Network (NYARWEK) that advocates for the rights of the LGBTI persons in Western Kenya which was formed in 2009. One of his notable achievements include an initiative to engage with religious and cultural leaders in Western Kenya. This was based on his clear understanding that real change in attitudes around sexual and gender minorities must include the faith communities who positioned as important opinion leaders for our communities.

Being a member of the Global Interfaith Network (GIN) he managed to have constructive engagement with religious leaders which has resulted into development of a religious training curriculum. This first ever faith/LGBTI curriculum has been adopted by NASCOP as a best practice document and they plan to scale it up across the country.

In his human rights work he has faced numerous challenges including Social exclusion because of defending the rights off the LGBT hence people fear identifying with him at personal level which also proves to be a personal security risk. He has managed to address the challenges by having personal mentors who provide advice during the hard times. Being a member of the NCHRD-K has also helped him to address some of the security risks that I have encountered over the period.”

Daniel believes, “Ambition, An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made it ridiculous by friends
when dead, A person without ambition is like a beautiful worm—it can creep; but not fly”