His family moved several times because of his father's work, and he lived in Shropshire and Belgium before emigrating to the United States, where they settled in Toledo, Ohio in 2005.
In college, Dzotsi produced a feature-length film, played mellophone in the Ohio State University Marching Band and delivered a TEDx Talk about storytelling.
[4][5] Dzotsi moved to Chicago after graduating from Ohio State, interning for WBEZ before becoming a fellow at This American Life.
[2] In October 2020, Dzotsi became a co-host of Reply All alongside Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt.
The show went on hiatus in February 2021 after controversy erupted over "The Test Kitchen," a limited series about the workplace culture at Bon Appétit, as well as wider issues around Gimlet Media's acquisition by Spotify.