Meet the Host: Marc Joel Levitt of ACTION SPEAKS!
Marc Joel Levitt is the Host/Creative Director of the nationally award winning, 12 year old radio show, Action Speaks!: Underappreciated Dates That Changed America, a topic driven panel based radio show taped at downtown Providence, R.I.’s community art space AS 220. Originally broadcast on Providence’s NPR affiliate, WRNI, the programs are now heard on over 100 stations across the country.
The goal of Action Speaks is to use less appreciated moments in United States history as points of departure for discussions around their context and contemporary implications. Another goal for Action Speaks is to make these cross-disciplinary discussions available to a general public.
Marc is a writer, storyteller, educator, radio host, TV host, filmmaker and land use activist living in Wakefield, RI and NYC. He has won awards for his story recordings, for work in his unique musical/narrative historical storytelling style, for his work in radio and for his work in the arts and in the humanities.
A 1971 graduate of Cornell University, Marc has also created the nationally recognized Charles Fortes Elementary School Museum-in-a-School Project and the educational philosophy called Site Specific Education.
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