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 recognized by the Obama Foundation, where she participated in the very first cohort of Obama Scholars at Columbia University in 2018–2019.
Alice Barbe is particularly known for having co-founded SINGA, an international non profit that promotes civic engagement on migration led innovation.
Early life and education.
Born in Paris on June 9, 1987, Alice grew up next to Béziers. 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, for the United Nations Environment Programme before launching SINGA in France.
Career.
In 2012, she joins Nathanael Molle and Guillaume Capelle who have just launched SINGA, after having been disappointed by her experience at the UN. She serves as co-CEO of SINGA France and CEO between 2017 and 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. In 2019, she represents SINGA which is awarded by the Global Pluralism Award by the Global Pluralism Center in Ottawa.
Alice Barbe is a regular speaker at public events such as TED conferences, 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). 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.
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. Following her complaint, she won her case against five defendants accused of public insult on the grounds of sex, 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 calls for French mayors to take the initiative to welcome refugees directly from the camp.