Harry Itie is a Communications/Media Expert, SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Advocate, and Documentary Filmmaker of Nigerian Descent. He is also the Founder/Editor in Chief of The Rustin Times, a media platform passionate about elevating conversations around LGBT+ issues across Africa and the African diaspora.

His career in media kicked off as a blogger in 2007, setting up The Talkaholic and Yada Magazine, a Faith-Based Media Platform, in 2009. His blogs garnered a lot of traction, leading him to win the award for Best Poetry Blog at the 2010 Nigerian Blog Awards. In 2012, he joined Television Continental (TVC) as a producer, reporter, and presenter on the Entertainment Desk. He spent the next six years hosting two of the network’s Entertainment Shows – On the Town and Entertainment Splash. He also covered some of the continent’s significant events, including One Lagos Fiesta, The All-Africa Music Awards, and the YouTube Sub-Saharan Africa Awards. His work at TVC also helped him score high-profile interviews with A-List celebrities like Yvonne Orji, Tiwa Savage, Dayo Okeniyi, Kevin Olusola, and Falz. At the 2014 Lagos Countdown celebrations, he got to interview the former governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola.

In 2018, Harry moved on from TVC with a short stint at Imaginarium Nigeria as the Product Manager for Zamari TV before working with the Pidgin Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos till 2019. In addition, he joined RNW Media in 2019 as the Editor of their Love Matters Naija platform – a position he held in the organization till 2021. The Dutch Non-Profit is known for building digital communities worldwide for social change.

Harry Itie has also received recognition for his work in media and advocacy. In 2017, he was nominated in the On-Air Personality of the Year (Visual) category at the Future Awards Africa. In 2018, he won the On-Air Personality (TV) of the Year award at the Maya Awards. He also rounded out that year as a fellow at the Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany, and was a finalist at the NOW-Us! Awards in Amsterdam. He was listed as part of YNaija’s most influential culture curators for 2020 and won Outstanding Contribution to Queer Youth Activism for Nigeria’s first Liberation Awards in 2021.

Harry Itie is the co-director of State Of Emergency, a documentary on Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria. He is also the director of Defiance: Voices Of A New Generation, a documentary focusing on the experiences of young LGBT+ Nigerians. Defiance was an official selection at the Out Film Festival in Nairobi, Kenya, and the Black History Month edition of DC Queer Flix in the United States.