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About Anna Levy
Anna Levy researches and teaches on emergency, crisis, and development practice & politics at Fordham & New York Universities. Since founding Jafsadi.works in 2015, an independent consulting collective focused on mapping and advancing structural accountability from community, policy, and movement perspectives, she has worked in areas related to crisis and development politics, the political economy of aid, transparency and accountability, civic and political space, governance ethics, displacement and borders, food and land justice, dissent and whistleblowing, structural inequality, and historical memory with more than 30 partners and collaborators including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), RFK Human Rights, Movimiento Agroecológico de América Latina y el Caribe (MAELA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Center for Civic Design, the Oral History Summer School, the Government Accountability Project, Beautiful Rising & Transparency International, among others. She holds a Master's degree focused on political and economic transitions, with emphasis on community and oral history, from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and is an avid capoeirista. Anna's ongoing work is most influenced by the three regions where she has spent significant time: the Levant, Middle East, Mesoamerica, and the Northeast United States.Anna Levy researches and teaches on emergency, crisis, and development practice & politics at Fordham & New York Universities. She is the founder and principal of Jafsadi.works, a research collective focused on advancing structural and participatory accountability in non-profit, movement, multilateral, city, and policy strategies. You can follow her @politicoyuntura.
NBN Episodes hosted by Anna:
March 29, 2023
Critical Disaster Studies
This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster stud…
August 26, 2022
Big Food & Co
In the 1960s and 1970s, the exposure of Big Tobacco’s aggressive lobbying and internal efforts to obscure science showcasing the harmful effects of sm…
November 30, 2017
Race and America's Long War
From the export of the Chicago Police Department's interrogation experts to Iraq after 2003, to casual references of the US-Indian Wars by US soldiers…
November 7, 2016
Traces of History
Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, "a stru…
November 7, 2016
The Seduction of Quantification
Quantification is not usually the first thing that comes to mind when hearing or reading about the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (OHC…
July 13, 2016
The Global Transformation of Time
From the 1880s onward, Beirut-based calendars and almanacs were in high demand as they packaged at least four different calendars into one, including:…
May 11, 2016
Worldmakers
At what point does the world end? More importantly, how did this idea of a whole, unified world emerge to begin with? In Worldmakers: Global Imagining…
May 4, 2016
No Such Thing as a Free Gift
In No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy (Verso Books, 2015), Linsey McGoey proposes a new way of discussin…