Anna Levy has more than 15 years of experience as a practitioner, researcher, oral historian, and analyst of 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. 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 on related issues with over 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), Feed the Truth, the Center for Civic Design, the Oral History Summer School, the Government Accountability Project, the Security in Context collective, Beautiful Rising, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and Transparency International, among others. Since 2018, she has been teaching on humanitarian, emergency, and development politics at Fordham University. She holds a Master's degree focused on political and economic transitions, 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.
