Levinger is an international development professional who focuses on strengthening civil society and building democratic resilience. She has worked in over 90 countries for multiple international development organizations, including the
World Bank,
USAID,
Save the Children,
CARE, AFS International, the
Carter Center, the International Committee of the
Red Cross,
Grameen Foundation, and the Inter-American Development Bank. A graduate of the
Bronx High School of Science,
Cornell University, and the
University of Alabama, Levinger also served (until 2018) as distinguished visiting professor within Emory University's Master's in Development Practice program. Levinger is one of the three co-founders (along with
Vicky Colbert and
Oscar Mogollon) of the highly acclaimed
Escuela Nueva movement that began in Colombia. She is also founder of the Coverdell Peace Corps Fellows Program and was part of the team that founded InterAction, the leading association of NGOs supporting humanitarian assistance. Among her books are
Human Capacity Development Across the Lifespan and
Nutrition,
Health, Education and for All. In 1996, she delivered the ninth annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture (Capacity, Capital and Calories), based on her research regarding the interplay among learning outcomes, nutrition and health. Levinger served as director or co-director of research for all but one of the annual
Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers Report. In 2016, the organization retired that report and introduced in its stead an annual End of Childhood Report; Levinger co-directed the research for this new publication, which compares the nature of childhood across 175 countries. ==References==