Michael Levitin is Chair of the Journalism Department and advisor to DVC'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 DVC as an adjunct professor in 2019 and became a tenured faculty member in 2024.