Isoa Nabainivalu, who prefers to be called Isoa or Zoey, is an assistant project officer at the Disability Pride Hub (DPH) in Fiji. Nabainivalu is a 34-year-old hard of hearing single man who uses Fiji Sign Language to communicate.

DPH is affiliated to the mainstream LGBTIQ organization, Rainbow Pride Foundation (RPF), and also has a close working relationship with national OPDs such as the Fiji Association of the Deaf (FAD). DPH is striving to network and build capacity with the regional community especially in the areas of people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) with disabilities.

Nabainivalu has worked as a project officer at the Fiji Association of the Deaf, is an alumnus of the Young Pacific Leaders Fellowship (YPL), was president of the Fiji Disabled Peoples Federation youth committee, and vice chairperson for the Fiji Sign Language Committee. For nine years he has been a sign language teacher and a committee secretary for the Fiji Deaf Rugby which in April of this year, managed to raise the funds and send a team of 14 to the World Deaf Rugby Cup held in Argentina.

Nabainivalu is passionate about his work in the area of advocacy and networking for his small community and spreading information using accessible communication such as uniform sign language, home signs, pictorials, visuals, or easy-to-read language.