Alice Barbe

Alice Barbe (born 9 June 1987 in Paris) is a French social entrepreneur. She is known in particular for her social and feminist commitments, in favor of refugees and against cyber-harassment. Her work has been recognised by the Obama Foundation, where she participated in the very first cohort of Obama Scholars at Columbia University in 2018–2019; Ashoka Foundation[1] and Aga Khan Foundation[2]

Not to be confused with Alice Barbi.
Alice Barbe
Born
Alice Barbe

(1987-06-09) June 9, 1987
Paris
NationalityFrench
OccupationSocial entrepreneur
Known forcommunity worker

Alice Barbe is particularly known for having co-founded SINGA, an international non profit that promotes civic engagement on migration led innovation.

Alice Barbe made history by setting legal precedent in France for being the first woman to successfully win a lawsuit and financial penalties[3] against online harassers, after being subject to three hundred and sixty targeted threats and attacks against her and her family.

She is an author[4] and recognised as a expert in the field of inclusion[5] and good global governance.[6]

Early life and education

Born in Paris on June 9, 1987, Alice grew up next to Béziers.[7] She holds a law degree from the University of Law Montpellier, completed with the Erasmus Programme at the University of Political Sciences of Copenhagen, and a European master's degree in Political Sciences that she completed in the Universities of Siena, Krakow, Montpellier and the Institute of European Studies in Strasbourg. She worked at the Secretariat of the Convention for Biological Diversity in Montreal,[8] for the United Nations Environment Programme before launching SINGA in France.

Career

In 2012, she joined Nathanael Molle and Guillaume Capelle who have just launched SINGA,[9] after having been disappointed by her experience at the UN. She served as CEO of SINGA France from 2017 to 2019. In 2018, Alice receives the Social Entrepreneur Award from the Office Franco-Québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ) and is selected as Obama Scholar, Emerging Leader by the Obama Foundation, which offers her a sabbatical year in New York at Columbia University.[10] In 2019, she accepted the Global Pluralism Award by the Global Pluralism Center in Ottawa on behalf of SINGA.

Alice Barbe is a regular speaker at public events such as TED conferences,[11][12] the 2019 edition of Solidays Festival and various podcasts, including Missing America hosted by Ben Rhodes, Obama's former speech writer. In addition, she was a civil society candidate in the 2015 French regional elections on the list of the French Green Party, Europe Écologie - Les Verts (EÉLV).[13] She is particularly committed to the environmental cause and a more responsible society, notably with the ″Crazy Toad movement″, for which she participated in the drafting of the ″Manifeste du crapaud fou″ (Manifesto of the Crazy Toad) along with Thanh Nghiem and Cédric Villani.[14]

She also participated in the creation of the association #StopHarcèlementdeRue in Paris, which launched a campaign against harassment in public transports in 2015, leading to a national plan to combat this phenomenon by the French High Council for Gender Equality. As a result of her various positions, Alice Barbe regularly receives numerous cyber-harassment attacks and in 2016, following an interview with the French media Libération, the article is shared by the Fdesouche, a far-right website, which leads her to received nearly 360 death and rape threats within a few hours.[15][16] Following her complaint, she won her case against five defendants accused of public insult on the grounds of sex,[17] a first in France.

In 2020, Alice Barbe was elected to the board of directors of Mouvement Impact France and works to promote social business in the private and public sectors.

Following the tragic incident in Moria refugee camp in June 2020, she called for French mayors to take the initiative to welcome refugees directly from the camp.[18]

In 2021, Barbe was featured in the documentary #SalePute,[19] by Florence Hainaut and Myriam Leroy to raise awareness on online misogyny.

Her first book was published by Éditions de L'Observatoire[20] in 2021, in French, titled "On ne naît pas engagé, on le devient - Nous avons tous le choix[21]", i.e We are not born engaged, we become - We all have the choice. Barbe strongly defends the inclusion in society of migrants and refugees, as a tremendous opportunity and an essential human commitment. “The world today has 70 million refugees. In 2050, they will be 300 million. How to move from welcoming to cohesion? Between sensationalist hashtags that divide more than they unite and a political world often tempted by hypernationalist rhetoric, the alternatives are numerous." Alice Barbe notes in her book.

Works
  • Le numérique pour repenser l’impact de la migration, Enjeux Numériques n°6, Les Annales des Mines, 2019.
  • Le manifeste du crapaud fou (ouvrage collectif), 2018. ISBN 979-1097160043
  • Révolution responsable: Partageons les solutions d'aujourd'hui aux problèmes de demain (ouvrage collectif), 2017.
  • Alice Barbe, Health and Biodiversity: the political imperative for Rio+20, Economologos, vol. III, année II, September 2012.
  • Alice Barbe, Natural Capitalism and Biodiversity's protection in the EU, Economologos, vol. II, année II, February 2012.

References
  1. "Alice Barbe : "Pour les réfugiés, nous créons de manière artificielle des amitiés qui deviennent essentielles" - Le Monde | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker". www.ashoka.org (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  2. "En Europe, pendant la pandémie, les solutions viennent des nouveaux arrivants entrepreneurs". Global Centre for Pluralism (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  3. Hullot-Guiot, Kim. "Insultes sexistes en ligne contre une militante : cinq prévenus condamnés". Libération (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  4. On ne naît pas engagé, on le devient. Nous avons tous le choix - Alice Barbe (in French).
  5. à 11h01, Par Gaëtane Morin Le 16 juin 2019 (2019-06-16). "Alice Barbe, la Française qui s'est fait offrir un an d'études par Obama". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  6. Grazia.fr (2019-06-20). "Alice Barbe : "Il faut voir au-delà du politique. A l'éch... - Grazia". www.grazia.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  7. Project, One Minute. "Changez les choses à votre échelle". One Minute Projet.
  8. https://www.cbd.int/health/doc/guide-biodiversity-health-en.pdf
  9. "Alice Barbe : " Pour les réfugiés, nous créons de manière artificielle des amitiés qui deviennent essentielles "". Le Monde.fr. May 31, 2017 – via Le Monde.
  10. "Obama Foundation Welcomes Inaugural Cohort of Scholars to Kick Off Year-Long Program". Columbia News.
  11. "Construisons dans l'altérité | Alice Barbe | TEDxParisDescartes - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  12. "Accueillir renforce | Alice Barbe & Inna Omarovna | TEDxESSECBusinessSchool - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
  13. "Paris peut-elle sauver Emmanuelle Cosse aux régionales en Ile-de-France ?". France 3 Paris Ile-de-France.
  14. "Alice Barbe". Les Crapauds Fous.
  15. Hullot-Guiot, Kim (September 6, 2018). ""Votre client a écrit ça sur Facebook: "Elle doit aimer se faire sodomiser par les Noirs et les Arabes""". Libération.fr.
  16. "Alice Barbe, insultée et menacée pour avoir pris la parole en faveur des migrants: "Elle doit aimer le vis nègre"". Le Soir Plus. September 6, 2018.
  17. Hullot-Guiot, Kim (November 6, 2018). "Insultes sexistes en ligne contre une militante : cinq prévenus condamnés". Libération.fr.
  18. https://www.liberation.fr/debats/2020/09/17/maires-de-france-il-est-urgent-d-accueillir-les- migrants-du-camp-de-moria_1799637
  19. Delforge, Par Hélène; minutes, Mercredi 12 mai 2021-17:30 Temps de lecture : 0 (12 May 2021). "Deux ministres face au docu #SalePute". Moustique.be (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  20. "Les livres de l'éditeur : Editions de l Observatoire - Decitre". www.decitre.fr. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
  21. On ne naît pas engagé, on le devient. Nous avons tous le choix - Alice Barbe (in French).
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