{"id":2323,"date":"2017-07-27T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=2323"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:26","slug":"alexandra-valcour","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/people\/alexandra-valcour\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Valcour"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>While in Ottawa in 2011 to participate in practicum with the Conservative Party of Canada, Alexandra Valcour fell in love with the capital city and knew she wanted a career in politics. Valcour enrolled in the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to learn the fundamentals of how the Hill works,\u201d says Valcour. \u201cThere are things that you don\u2019t get taught when you\u2019re thrown into a role in any political office. You\u2019re supposed to learn it as you go as a staffer, but it\u2019s nice to have somebody sit down across from you and really explain the rules. At the Riddell Program, you get to have those nitty gritty conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valcour says the program exceeded all her expectations. \u201cInevitably, you become good friends with someone who sees every political decision and activity in a polar opposite way from your own views and it\u2019s really helpful,\u201d she says. \u201cIt never changed my political ideology, but it opened me up to thinking about things in a new way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Valcour did her practicum working for the president of the Treasury Board, and today works as a senior policy adviser in the Office of Ontario&#8217;s Minister of Long-Term Care.\u201cThe practicum is pivotal. It gave me an opportunity to translate what I had been learning in school and apply it to the job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For any future students considering the program, Valcour has one word: \u201capply\u201d. \u201cI don\u2019t think I would be where I am if I hadn\u2019t done this program,\u201d she says. \u201cI can put the letters behind my name, but I think the bigger part of it is the confidence I now have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Revision: May, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Alexandra","cu_people_last_name":"Valcour","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[34,52],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2323","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni","cu_people_type-alumni-graduated-2009-2013"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Hill and Knowlton, Account Director","cu_people_degree":"MPM\/13","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2323\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}