Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque

Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque, M.S.M, founded Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) in 2002 with Benjamin Peterson.[1] Sicotte-Levesque and Peterson were both awarded a Meritorious Service Medal (Canada) by the Canadian Governor-General for founding JHR.[2] Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a Radio Producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan (Radio Miraya).[3] She also worked as the Country Director for the BBC World Service Trust in Sudan.[4]

Sicotte-Levesque has a BA in International Studies from Vassar College[5] and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).[4]

In 2006 she was awarded a Global Youth Fellowship from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation [6] for her project When Silence is Golden],[7] looking at the impact of Canadian gold mining activities on a small town in Western Ghana.

Sicotte-Levesque's feature film "The Longest Kiss" (A Jamais Pour Toujours) about Sudanese youth ahead of the country's split in two, premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival (RIDM) where it received a special mention for the Magnus Isacsson prize[8] and was broadcast on Super Channel.[9]

References
  1. Marley, Karin (2003-07-01). "Repaying a favour". Archived from the original on 2012-03-06.
  2. "JHR Co-Founders Ben Peterson and Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque Honoured by Canadian Governor-General David Johnston for Meritorious Service" (Press release). Toronto: CNW. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  3. "Radio-Canada: Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque -Nous c'est vous- Indicatif Présent". Radio-canada.ca. 2006-05-29. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  4. "LSE Graduate Destinations - Graduate destinations - Careers and vacancies - Staff and students - Home". Lse.ac.uk. 2015-05-06. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  5. "jhr (Journalists for Human Rights) | Mobilizing Media. Changing Lives". Jhr.ca. 2009-03-01. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  6. "2006 Gordan Global Fellows". Archived from the original on 2012-04-14.
  7. "Information". When-silence-is-golden.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  8. "Les RIDM se concluent - Cinéma Excentris | Montréal". Cinemaexcentris.com. Archived from the original on 2015-06-17. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  9. "Online on Rogers Anyplace TV Longest Kiss; The Online on Rogers Anyplace TV". Rogersondemand.com. 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2015-06-19.


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