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Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Levin attended college
at UCLA, majoring in history while taking courses in literature,
film, and playwriting as well. Before graduating, he took a break—first
to travel in Europe and then to work in a congressional office in
Washington, D.C. Following graduation, he was hired to help handle
constituent and community relations in the office of Tom Bradley,
the newly elected mayor of Los Angeles. After a two-year stint at
L.A. City Hall, he moved to Boston to devote himself to writing.
This pursuit continued when he returned to Los Angeles, and he worked
in television for several years, part of the time writing for the
ABC comedy Benson.
In 1984 he moved east again, this time to New York City, where
he worked for a research center preparing a study on police policy
commissioned by the U.S. Justice Department. This was followed by
a job as a policy analyst with a New York State commission on trade
and competitiveness in the office of Governor Mario Cuomo. There
he drafted position papers and wrote portions of the Cuomo Commission
Report, published in 1988. The following year he returned to Los
Angeles, where he worked as a freelance writer for the "Opinion"
section of the Los Angeles Times and for the Friends of the Arts
of Mexico Foundation, among others. His projects at the foundation
included a documentary on the rock art of Baja California and a
public radio program on short stories from modern Mexico.
His association with the GCI began in 1991, when he was hired to
write and edit the Institute's newsletter on a regular basis. Other
assignments included writing a documentary on the Nefertari project
and editing the GCI book Picture L.A., which went on to win several
awards. In 1995 he joined the Institute's staff. While continuing
as editor of the newsletter, he also serves as the GCI's liaison
with the Getty Trust's Public Affairs department and is part of
the team supervising the GCI's Web site. In addition, he undertakes
special assignments from the Institute's director, such as writing
the GCI's new brochure. He enjoys being at the Institute, for it
appeals to his omnivorous curiosity—and because the diversity of
what he does now echoes the diversity of his working life prior
to the GCI.
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