Elena

Personal Information

First Name

Elena

Last Name

Botkin-Levy

Website

http://www.zumix.org/

Organization

ZUMIX Radio

Biography

Elena Botkin-Levy, is a radio producer, educator and radio enthusiast. She started producing radio as a teenager, co-founding RadioActive Youth— a youth run radio program in Western Massachusetts. Since then she has continued to deepen her love of radio. At WMUA 91.1FM in Amherst, she facilitated and engineered a local community radio-programming block. As a coordinator with the Prometheus Radio Project, Elena organized with community radio stations across the country and she traveled to Kenya to partner with international community radio organizers. She has produced radio documentaries and news for national broadcast. Her radio work has aired on Making Contact, Free Speech Radio News, and Crosscurrents. In Oakland, California, Elena coordinated and produced radio programs with the National Radio Project. She also taught radio production to youth at outLoud Radio in San Francisco. Currently, she works as the Radio Coordinator with ZUMIX Radio in East Boston, MA where she gets to work with fabulous young people and train them to be live radio DJs and produce radio stories. Elena believes radio can change the world!

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History

Member for

1 year 13 weeks