Erik Levis grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland and is a dual American-French citizen. Mr. Levis graduated Cum Laude from the School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in May of 2000 with a B.S. majoring in Broadcast Journalism and minoring in French. After graduation, he moved back to Maryland for a year to work as the Sports Director at Cable News 21 in Rockville. He then moved to New York in the fall of 2001 to work first as an Associate Producer at ABC News Radio, then as an Associate Producer at USA Network before becoming a Production Assistant at the Food Network.

After almost three and a half years in television and radio, Erik became the Director of Marketing at Jack L. Gordon Architects in March of 2004. In August of 2004, Erik was able to combine his social action interests with his professional life as the Manager of Jewish Network News at the UJA-Federation of New York. Erik had been involved with both the Taglit-Birthright Israel on the Alumni Leadership Board as well as a Charter Member and Chair of Fuel for Truth. It was this area of interest that lead Erik to pursue an MA in Society and Politics in Israel at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Erik is about to complete his first semester of coursework where he has been taking Hebrew as well as Sociological Theories and Israeli Society, Israeli Society and Politics, Multiple Voices of Israeli Society, and Consumer Culture and Mass Media in Israel.

Erik is looking forward to coming home to the US for a short break at the end of January before starting up in late February with the spring semester. You can read more about Erik and his adventures on his blog at http://www.eriklevis.blogspot.com.

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