Alexa Hoffmann

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Alexa
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Hoffmann
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OutRight Action International
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Alexa Hoffmann is OutRight’s Caribbean Program Associate based in Barbados. Alexa is a trans advocate and Human Rights Defender, with almost 10 years experience specializing in policy change and legislative reform. Alexa was part of organizing a pilot project for Barbados Pride in November 2015, and the first official Barbados Pride celebrations in November of 2017. She is also the lead claimant in a Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights challenging Sections 9 and 12 of the Sexual Offences Act of Barbados, which criminalize all forms of same-sex intimacy with life imprisonment and 10 years’ imprisonment respectively.

Alexa likes cats, cooking, writing, getting her hands dirty while working on cars, Céline Dion and Britcoms.

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Caribbean Program Associate