Shia Levitt

Shia Levitt is the director of News Ambassadors, a project that links student reporters in one location with counterparts in a politically or geographically dissimilar location for collaborative, CTN-informed solutions reporting.

Levitt is a public radio journalist who has reported for NPR, Marketplace and other outlets from the US, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. In 2022, she was a News Editor at KALW and mentor for their Audio Academy Fellows program. In addition to reporting and producing, Levitt has taught radio journalism both at the college level and to teens, including for WNYC’s Radio Rookies, for UNICEF in Haiti, and at Mills College, Brooklyn College and Queens College. She is also a 2023–2024 Complicating the Narratives Fellow with SJN.