Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque
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Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque founded Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)
in 2002 with Benjamin Peterson
. Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a Radio Producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan (Miraya FM). A programme she produced, Our Peace, was awarded a Radio for Peacebuilding Award by Search for Common Ground.
Sicotte-Levesque has a BA in International Studies from Vassar College
and a MSc 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
http://www.gordonfn.org/resfiles/ASicotte-Levesque.htm which allowed her to direct and produce the documentary film When Silence is Golden] (in French: Le Silence est d'Or). The film follows the director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana. Through her journey, we meet the inhabitants of this town who, despite efforts by the government to silence them, cannot hide their anger and are eager to express their grievances. The French version of the film received an honourable mention at the 2009 Panafrica (Vues d'Afrique) Festival in Montreal.
Sicotte-Levesque was until recently the Country Director for the BBC World Service Trust in Sudan and is working on a second documentary film.
Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)
jhr is an international media development non-governmental organization whose goal is "to make everyone in the world fully aware of their rights". The organization believes that "creating awareness is the first and most necessary step to ending rights abuses...
in 2002 with Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson
Ben Peterson is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Journalists for Human Rights, Canada’s largest international media development non-governmental organization.-Early life:...
. Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a Radio Producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan (Miraya FM). A programme she produced, Our Peace, was awarded a Radio for Peacebuilding Award by Search for Common Ground.
Sicotte-Levesque has a BA in International Studies from Vassar College
Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
and a MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
and Political Science (LSE).
In 2006 she was awarded a Global Youth Fellowship from the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation
The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation
The Walter and Duncan Foundation was founded in 1965 by Walter L. Gordon, his wife, Elizabeth , and his brother, Duncan Gordon. It continues today as a private charitable foundation trying to improve public policy in Canada. Walter Gordon was a Canadian businessman and politician...
http://www.gordonfn.org/resfiles/ASicotte-Levesque.htm which allowed her to direct and produce the documentary film When Silence is Golden] (in French: Le Silence est d'Or). The film follows the director in her quest to lift the silence on the gold mining activities of a Canadian mining company near a small town in Western Ghana. Through her journey, we meet the inhabitants of this town who, despite efforts by the government to silence them, cannot hide their anger and are eager to express their grievances. The French version of the film received an honourable mention at the 2009 Panafrica (Vues d'Afrique) Festival in Montreal.
Sicotte-Levesque was until recently the Country Director for the BBC World Service Trust in Sudan and is working on a second documentary film.