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TiPS Graduate

Vivian Lyngdoh

he/she/they

About

Locations

  • Melbourne CBD
  • Metro North
  • Metro South
  • Metro East
  • Metro West

Areas Of Expertise

  • Advocacy and Inclusion
  • Community
  • Diversity and Identity
  • Intersectionality and Diversity
  • LGBTIQA+ Awareness and Inclusion
  • Skills and Empowerment

Presentation Topics

  • Advocacy
  • Awareness storytelling
  • Community Engagement
  • Conference presentations
  • DEI
  • Empowerment
  • Event production
  • Family
  • Growing Up LGBTQIA+ in Regional Areas
  • Healing and Compassion
  • Hope for the Future
  • Improving our Impact
  • Inclusion
  • Intersectionality
  • Large groups
  • Leadership
  • LGBTIQA+ advocacy through storytelling
  • LGBTQI+ visibility
  • Motivation
  • Motivational speaking
  • Non-binary inclusion
  • Queer activism

Socials

Open to Negotiating Fees

Yes

Biography

Vivian Lyngdoh is a queer Khasi leader, speaker, and community strategist whose work bridges culture, queerness, and collective care across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Raised in Shillong, Meghalaya, within a rare matrilineal culture where kinship flows through mothers and leadership is grounded in shared responsibility, Vivian brings a deeply intersectional lens to queer advocacy and community building.

Based in Naarm (Melbourne), Vivian currently works with Transgender Victoria and Women’s Circus, and has worked across community, government, and corporate spaces, including the New Zealand public sector implementing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and Air New Zealand where they sat on the Pride committee. They have also served nationally as Vice President of the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council (AGMC).

Previously, Vivian spent three years as chair/co‑chair of the Wellington Pride Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand, where they worked to uplift queer artists and centre queer voices of colour in Pride programming. They are also the founder of Frills, a queer events collective known for themed events that invite attendees to “allow their creativity to explode through their clothing,” including sold‑out nights such as the “celestial bodies” event. Vivian’s story and community work have been profiled by Capital Magazine, PrideNZ, DigitalNZ, and New Zealand’s LGBTQ+ media, express.

Vivian speaks on intersectionality, queer and migrant identities, cultural safety and anti‑racism, leadership through lived experience, and building creative, inclusive spaces. Across government, community, and corporate contexts, they weave together culture, queerness, and compassion to create environments where people can be seen, valued, and supported to thrive.

Experience

Vivian speaks and facilitates across community, government, arts, and corporate settings in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Their experience includes keynotes, panels, workshops, political forums, and podcasts focused on intersectionality, queer and migrant identities, leadership, and cultural safety.

Selected engagements include:

-Chairing and co‑chairing the Wellington Pride Festival over three years, leading intersectional, community‑led programming and centring queer voices of colour in Pride events.

-Hosting the LGBTTQIAP+ Political Forum in Wellington (Eva Beva, 2020) as Chair of the Wellington Pride Festival Committee, facilitating a respectful and inclusive discussion among political candidates on issues central to rainbow communities.

-Appearing on the B‑Side Stories podcast, speaking about Wellington Pride and “being intersectional and inclusive,” and how governance and festival design can centre diverse lived experiences.

-Participating in recorded interviews and archival conversations for PrideNZ and related platforms documenting community leadership, intersectionality, and political engagement within LGBTTQIAP+ communities.

-Speaking as part of Kingston Arts’ “Memory, Time and Country” exhibition program, contributing a queer, migrant, and Indigenous perspective to conversations about place, memory, and belonging.

-Speaking as part of a panel discussion on Maribyrnong City Council’s IDAHOBIT 2025 Flag Raising and Speaker Panel, joining other LGBTQIA+ voices of the western region to address discrimination, visibility, and community solidarity.

-Presenting at sector‑based conferences and online events, including WorkPride hosted by myGwork, on intersectionality, queer and migrant leadership, and cultural safety.

-Creating and hosting Frills queer events in Wellington, designing safer, creative spaces that centre queer and trans communities, with sold‑out themed nights such as the 2021 “celestial bodies” event.

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