Michaelle Jean
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Micha'lle Jean (born September 6, 1957) is a Canadian stateswoman and former journalist who served as the third Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie from 2015 to 2019.
She was the first woman to hold the position, and she remained as such until the end of 2018.
Jean was Governor General of Canada from 2005 to 2010, the 27th since Canadian Confederation. Jean was a migrant from Haiti who immigrated to Canada in 1968, and was raised in the town of Thetford Mines, Quebec.
After receiving a number of university degrees, Jean worked as both a journalist and broadcaster for Radio-Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), as well as doing charitable work, mainly in the field of supporting victims of domestic violence.
She was elected governor general by Queen Elizabeth II on Prime Minister Paul Martin's suggestion to replace Adrienne Clarkson as governor general in 2005, and she ruled the post until she was replaced by David Johnston in 2010.
Early in her career, remarks of hers in some of Jean-Daniel Lafond's film films were seen as defending Quebec sovereignty and raising questions about her citizenship.
Jean, however, denied separatist leanings, renounced her French citizenship (acquired through her marriage), and then became a respected vicereine known for her contributions to the Canadian Forces, Aboriginal Canadians, and the arts, particularly youth involvement in them.
Jean was appointed to a four-year term as the Special Envoy for Haiti for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in 2010.Michael Jean was sworn in as a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on September 26, 2012.
Early life and education
Jean's family is from Haiti; she was born in Port-au-Prince and spent winters and weekends in Jacmel, her mother's hometown. Jean was educated at home as her parents did not want her swearing allegiance to François Duvalier, the then Haitian president, despite the fact that her father taught a Protestant independent school in Port-au-Prince.
Jean and her family fled Haiti to escape Duvalier's reign, where Jean's father was arrested and tortured in 1965. Jean's father left Canada in 1967 when she and her mother and sister arrived the next year; the family lived in Thetford Mines, Quebec, Quebec; the family lived together in Thetford Mines, Quebec. Jean's father, on the other hand, became more distant and violent, and her parents' unions broke down; she, her mother, and sister, then moved to a basement apartment in Montreal's Little Burgundy neighborhood.
Jean obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Italian and Hispanic languages and literature at the University of Montreal, and she taught Italian Studies at the University of Montreal from 1984 to 1986, as part of her Master of Arts degree in comparative literature. She then continued with language and literature studies at the University of Florence, Perugia, and the Catholic University of Milan. Jean is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and Haitian Creole, as well as Portuguese in French and English, and he's also fluent in Portuguese.
Jean conducted an investigation into spousal assault and spent time at a women's shelter in Canada, which allowed for the establishment of a network of shelters for women and children. She worked with Communities and Immigration Canada to help refugees obtain the entry they desired, as well as at the Conseil des Communautés du Québec, where Jean began writing about immigrant women's experiences. Jean-Daniel Lafond, a French-born Canadian filmmaker, and the pair adopted Marie-Éden, an orphanage from Jacmel, as their daughter Marie-Éden. Jean has two stepdaughters who met her in Lafond after her marriage.
Post-viceregal life
The Cabinet declared in the weeks leading up to Jean's resignation from the viceregal office that the Michalle Jean Foundation would be established by the federal Crown-in-Council to focus on strengthening education, culture, and creativity among youth from rural, northern, and/or poor communities in Canada. It was also revealed that Jean would be sent by the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (U.S.) as the UN Special Envoy to Haiti for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, with the intention to combat hunger and illiteracy and raise international funds. She was indicted on November 8, 2010, and served for a four-year term. Although the position's office is based in Paris, France, Jean opted to stay in Canada and base herself out of the space provided by the University of Ottawa and rented by the Michalle Jean Foundation. Jean pushed for a reform of Haiti's education system in early 2011 as "the pillar of the country's impoverished future." Jean was appointed as the University of Ottawa's Chancellor in 2012, but she resigned in 2015 after being identified as Chancellor.
Journalism, broadcasting, and film careers are all in play.
Jean began as a journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster for Radio-Canada in 1988, as host of news and affairs programs such as Actuel, Montréal ce soir, Virages, and Le Point; she was the first woman of Caribbean descent to be seen on French television news in Canada. For example, she moved from Réseau de l'information (RDI), Radio-Canada's all-news channel, to anchor a number of programs, including Le Monde ce soir, l'Édition québécoise, Horizons francophones, Le Journal RDI, and RDI à l'écoute. She was recruited by CBC Newsworld's English language all-news channel to host The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts, which both feature the best in Canadian and international documentary films four years ago. By 2004, Jean was hosting her own show, Michalle, while also appearing in occasional Le Téléjournal as a host.
Jean filmed several films with her husband, including the award-winning Hati in Tous Our Dreams ("Haiti in All Our Dreams), in which she meets her uncle, writer and essayist René Depestre, who fled from the Duvalier dictatorship to exile in France and wrote about Haiti's hopes, and tells him how Haiti awaits his return. On both the English and French channels of the CBC, she produced and hosted news and documentary television shows for television.