Debra D’Alessandro

Debra D’Alessandro is a sharp-witted, fast-talking, educator and activist with a wide range of entertainment and broadcast experience.

Debra is host and producer of Amazon Country, the nation’s longest running lesbian/feminist music and public affairs radio program, airing at 88.5 WXPN-FM in Philadelphia, and live-streamed on the internet.

An award winning broadcaster, Debra hosted a weekly call-in TV talk show, Philly LIVE: Your Gay and Lesbian Community Connection on WYBE Public Television. On the air from 1999 to 2005, Emmy nominated Philly Live was America’s first live, interactive, gay-themed television program. Debra has worked in the fields of reproductive health, domestic violence, and LGBT civil rights. Since 1994, her “day job” has focused on provider education and policy development in HIV and other public health issues.

She met SheWho’s founder, Otter, and most of the other SheWho members during her seven seasons singing with the Anna Crusis Women’s Choir. She and Otter performed briefly as a duo at various women’s and LGBT events in the early 1990s. Debra is a founding member of SheWho, and finds its musical community to both a grounding and energizing part of her life.