ABOUT VICKIE REMOE

Vickie Remoe is a Sierra Leonean journalist, and TV Host. She is the author of Adama Loves Akara, a children’s book that teaches African values and vowels. In 2020, she launched the C-19 Dignity Project; a citizen response to the pandemic that provided emergency medical supplies to 400 hospital beds in a dozen Covid-19 treatment facilities.

Remoe is a gender equity advocate and uses her platform to amplify the issues affecting women and girls. In 2020. She was appointed Girl Ambassador for Save The Children Sierra Leone. In 2019 she was listed as 100 Most Influential Young Africans by Avance Media. She is a recipient of the Women Empowerment (We) Network Award for Girls & Women’s Empowerment (2016) and the GWB Commission Award for Sierra Leone Arts & Culture (2011). She is the Chief Content Marketing Officer and Strategic Communications lead at VR&C Marketing where she advises entrepreneurs, policymakers, and project leaders. Remoe serves on the Advisory Boards of Capitol Foods and The Ella Koblo Gulama Foundation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Haverford College, and a Master of Science in Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

 

The citation for her award by Chozen Generation Sierra Leone as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Sierra Leoneans in 2020 reads: “FOR YOUR ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATIONAL FIGHT AGAINST THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC AND FOR CONSISTENTLY USING YOUR PLATFORM TO MARKET SIERRA LEONE”.