Shia Levitt
Director, News Ambassadors

Shia Levitt 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 of radio reporting experience, primarily for public radio outlets including NPR, Marketplace, WAMU, and KQED. 

She has reported domestically and internationally including in East and West 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 domestic and international 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.