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Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque
Born1978 or 1979 (age 45–46)
Montreal, Canada
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Journalist, radio producer, filmmaker
OrganizationJournalists for Human Rights

Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque MSM (born 1978 or 1979 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian journalist, radio producer, and filmmaker. In 2002, she founded Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) with Benjamin Peterson. Sicotte-Levesque and Peterson were both awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by the Canadian Governor-General for founding JHR in 2016. Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a radio producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan (Radio Mirraya). She also worked as the Country Director for the BBC World Service Trust in Sudan.

Sicotte-Levesque has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from Vassar College and a Master of Science in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

In 2006 she was awarded a Global Youth Fellowship from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation for her project When Silence is Golden, 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 and was broadcast on Super Channel.

References

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  10. "Longest Kiss; The". Rogers Anyplace TV. Archived from the original on June 17, 2015. Retrieved June 19, 2015.


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