Friday Speaker Series: Vivian Taylor

Vivian Taylor is a long time trans rights policy advocate and community organizer. A native North Carolinian, she has lived and worked in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area for most of her adult life. Ms. Taylor has been involved with environmental and LGBTQ+ policy for all of her civilian professional life.  She has a Masters of Divinity and a Masters of Public Policy from Duke University, and is on the leadership team of Stand Up For Trans Women Duke. Taylor has been advocating for Duke University to stop allowing university resources to be used to promote laws targeting gay and trans people since 2016. She is the former head of the Episcopal Church’s international LGBTQ+ group that was then called Integrity USA. She is a US Army veteran of the War in Iraq, a Chaplain's Assistant, and worked with the Obama administration to lift the military transition ban. In her day job she works at NC State University doing water quality policy in support of local government's community health efforts and the NC oyster and crab industry.