Sonja Vivienne

Sonja is a Lecturer of Digital Media at Flinders University, SA. Her PHD explored Digital Storytelling as a tool for Everyday Activism, focusing on Voice, Queer Identity and Networked Publics. Her background is as a writer/director/producer of drama and documentaries, tackling subjects as diverse as youth suicide; drug culture in Vietnamese communities; and lesbian personal columns. Sonja has facilitated a range of community Digital Storytelling projects, including a cross-platform initiative, ‘The Rainbow Family Tree Project’. As creative principal of ‘Incite Stories’, Sonja produced and co-directed ‘Wadu Matyidi’, an award winning kids animation and documentary that aims to rejuvenate the indigenous Adnyamathanha language and culture of the Flinders Ranges.