Ezra Levin

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Ezra Levin (born 1986 in Buda , Texas ) is an American political activist and co-founder of the non-profit organization Indivisible . Together with his wife Leah Greenberg , he was for authorship of the book We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump by the magazine Time to time 100 counted.

Life

Lewis grew up in Buda, Texas. he first studied at Carleton College and received his Masters in 2013 from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University .

From 2007 to 2008 he worked for AmeriCorps VISTA in San Francisco , California. From 2008 to 2011, he was Deputy Policy Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett . This was followed by a position as Associate Director of Federal Policy at Prosperity Now from 2012 to 2017. His work there focused on homelessness and poverty.

Together with his wife Leah Greenberg and Jeremy Haile and Angel Padilla, all of whom are former members of Congress, he published the online publication Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda in 2016 after Donald Trump was elected 45th President of the United States . The publication went viral and developed into a progressive movement . Levin and Greenberg started a website and encouraged supporters to start their own local chapters. In 2017, the work of Indivisible as a 501 (c) organization was finally continued with Levin as President and Greenberg as Vice-President. In 2019 Greenberg and Levin published the book We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy after Trump . In the same year he and his wife were named one of Time Magazine's One Hundred Most Influential People of the Year.

Awards

  • 2017: # 2 of the 50 top thinkers and visionaries transforming American politics according to Politico
  • 2018: one of the 50 most influential figures in Trump's Washington by GQ
  • 2019: Time 100

Works

  • We are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy after Trump . Together with Ezra Levin. Atria / One Signal Publishers 2019. ISBN 978-1982129972 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josefin Dolsten: Meet the Jewish couple leading the Trump resistance. In: timesofisrael.com. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  2. ↑ Vincent M. Mallozzi: Friends, First and Always . In: The New York Times . March 29, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 20, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Ezra Levin: Ezra Levin. In: Official presence on Linkedin . Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Ezra Levin. Indivisible, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Meet the husband-wife duo who are sparking a liberal Tea Party movement. In: The Mercury News. May 13, 2017, Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ Elana Schor, Rachael Bade: Inside the protest movement that has Republicans reeling. In: Politi.co. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (American English).
  8. ↑ POLITICO 50 - Our annual list for 2017. Accessed on February 20, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The Editors of GQ: The 50 Most Powerful People In Trump's Washington *. Retrieved February 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Levin, Ezra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Buda , Texas