Omid Iravanipour is a New York-based LGBTQ rights activist.

Omid moved to the US in 2007 from Iran and while continuing his post-graduate studies in CCNY in Landscape Architecture, decided to use his newly gained privileges to help his fellow Iranian queer community. As a board member of Canadian-based Iranian queer organization “Queerkadeh”, Omid helps echo the life story of the Iranian queer community.

He joined the PakyanArtCar team in October of 2021 as a social media consultant and is now managing PaykanArtCar’s social media presence.