Michael Levitin is Chair of the Journalism Department and advisor to 91°µÍø's award-winning newspaper, The Inquirer.
Michael received his BA in History from UC Santa Cruz and his MS from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He got his start as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the English-language newspaper Bolivian Times. He later worked for six years as a foreign correspondent based in Berlin, where he wrote for Newsweek, TIME, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times and other publications.
In 2011 he became co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, the flagship newspaper of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City. His 2021 book, Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy, explored the movement’s lasting impacts on American politics and culture. His first novel, Disposable Man, was published in 2019. Michael began teaching at 91°µÍø as an adjunct professor in 2019 and became a tenured faculty member in 2024.