Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque

Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque, M.S.M, founded Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) in 2002 with Benjamin Peterson. Sicotte-Levesque and Peterson were both awarded a Meritorious Service Medal (Canada) by the Canadian Governor-General for founding JHR. Sicotte-Levesque has also worked as a Radio Producer for the United Nations radio in Sudan (Radio Miraya). A programme she produced, Our Peace, was awarded a Radio for Peacebuilding Award by Search for Common Ground. 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 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 Foundationfor 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" (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 and was broadcast on Super Channel.