Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque | |
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Born | 1978 or 1979 (age 45–46) Montreal, Canada |
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Occupation(s) | Journalist, radio producer, filmmaker |
Organization | Journalists for Human Rights |
Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque MSM (born 1978 or 1979 in Montreal, Canada)[1][2] is a Canadian journalist, radio producer, and filmmaker. In 2002, she founded Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) with Benjamin Peterson.[2] Sicotte-Levesque and Peterson were both awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by the Canadian Governor-General for founding JHR in 2016.[3] Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a radio producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan (Radio Mirraya).[4] She also worked as the Country Director for the BBC World Service Trust in Sudan.[5]
Sicotte-Levesque has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Vassar College[6] and a Master of Science in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).[5]
In 2006 she was awarded a Global Youth Fellowship from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation[7] for her project When Silence is Golden,[8] looking at the impact of Canadian gold mining activities on a small town in Western Ghana.
Sicotte-Levesque's feature film The Longest Kiss (À jamais, pour toujours), about Sudanese youth ahead of the country's partition, premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) where it received a special mention for the Magnus Isacsson prize[9] and was broadcast on Super Channel.[10]