Shia Levitt is the Director of News Ambassadors, a project of the Bridge Alliance Education Fund that links student reporters with counterparts in politically or demographically dissimilar areas to collaborate stories exploring solutions to contentious issues.
Shia is a longtime public radio journalist who has reported for NPR and many other outlets.
She has taught radio reporting and audio storytelling at Brooklyn College in New York and at Mills College in Oakland, California, as well as for WNYC’s Radio Rookies and other organizations.
Her teaching builds on two decades working in radio, primarily reporting for public radio outlets including NPR, Marketplace and KQED. Most recently Shia was a News Editor at KALW in 2022, where she also launched the poetry segment, Bay Poets.
She has reported domestically and internationally including in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and her main beats have been covering science, health, labor, and the environment.
Her vast experience includes producing and reporting radio features and news spots on issues including business, economics, labor, social trends, and environment/health from the U.S., Japan, Philippines, India, Israel, Kenya, and Ivory Coast.
She is also a freelance photographer for various magazines and occasionally produces for television.
To learn more, visit www.newsambassadors.org.
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As one of the initial driving forces behind the Bridge Alliance and as chairman of the board, David Nevins brings business acumen, vision and a tireless this-must-and-can-be-done zeal to the burgeoning movement to bridge divides to transform the political process.
As a business leader, Nevins excels at building bridges between people and organizations from the right, left and center for civilized conversation and then action.
He co-founded the Bridge Alliance because, as he says, “No matter how well managed and how well funded any one organization is, significant political reform will not happen without an alliance to further collaborative interactions. Together we can and will raise the collective impact of all.”
Nevins is also co-publisher of The Fulcrum, a daily new publication committed to protecting democracy by educating the public on issues that matter. The Fulcrum is a key piece of a larger strategy to build a pro-democracy constituency of millions of Americans by making it easier to find and act on civic engagement opportunities. The Bridge Alliance, The Fulcrum, and Citizen Connect are all interconnected in their support of the ecosystem of our community of pro-democracy organizations and concerned and engaged citizens.
He established and continues to work with The Nevins Fellow program at The Mccourtney Institute of Democracy at Penn State University. The Nevins Fellows program allows students to complete internships at organizations that bring people together to solve common problems. In this program students begin by taking a Democratic Leadership class that introduces them to a different side of democracy—one that focuses not on campaigns and elections, but on bringing people together to work on common problems. Students learn about organizations doing this kind of work, and develop the skills necessary to facilitate conversations about community issues.
He is a member of the Aspen Institute Society of Fellows, with a focus on the Aspen Rodel Fellowship in Public Leadership.
Nevins graduated with honors in economics from Penn State in 1969 and received an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He continues as President of Nevins Real Estate Management. Nevins is married to Catherine Moyal Nevins. They currently reside in Palm Beach Gardens Florida and Cape May New Jersey.
