Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque
Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque, M.S.M, founded Journalists for Human Rights in 2002 with Benjamin Peterson. Sicotte-Levesque and Peterson were both awarded a Meritorious Service Medal by the Canadian Governor-General for founding JHR. Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a Radio Producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan. She also worked as the Country Director for the BBC World Service Trust in Sudan.
Sicotte-Levesque has a BA in International Studies from Vassar College and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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" about Sudanese youth ahead of the country's split in two, premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival where it received a special mention for the Magnus Isacsson prize and was broadcast on Super Channel.
