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Susan Levenstein
Program Assistant
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Asia Program
Phone: 202/691-4013
Email: sue.levenstein@wilsoncenter.org
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Affiliation
Program Assistant
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Biography
Sue Levenstein is program assistant of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center. Her research interests are East and Southeast Asia with a focus on social and political movements, human rights, and religion. Currently, she is editing a book project, Land Grab: The Race for the World’s Farmland (Wilson Center, forthcoming 2009) with Asia program associate Michael Kugelman.
Before joining the Wilson Center, Levenstein interned with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA), where she worked on the coordination of the 2006 United Nations Small Arms Review Conference, drafting reports on conference proceedings and managing the logistics of a pre-conference capacity-building workshop. She also interned with the political/economic affairs section of the Consulate General of the United States in Shanghai where she reported on the April 2005 anti-Japan riots in China, and collected data on Chinese media coverage of the rule of law and human rights. Previously, Levenstein spent seven years working in the publishing industry, working with various marketing, promotional and outreach projects for U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine.
A California native, Levenstein spent her formative years in Taipei, Taiwan and traveled extensively through China and parts of Western Europe. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and French. She currently resides in Washington, DC with her husband, Mark.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, English, Tufts University
Master of Arts, International Relations and International Communication, Boston University
| Record updated: 08/27/2009 |
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