Dr. Ian P. Levy is an assistant professor and the director of School Counseling Programs at Manhattan College. He is a New York City native and former high school counselor. His research explores preparing school counselors to use hip-hop based interventions to support youth development. Most notably, Dr. Levy piloted the development, implementation and evaluation of a hip-hop based counseling framework which has been featured in The New York Times, CNN and published in a variety of reputable academic journals. He is also the author of the research monograph Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling: Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches published by Routledge.

You can find Dr. Levy's website here and learn more about his recent work here.

We want to thank Paper Monday for the interviews and portraits, Jo Barratt and Dike Godstime for the audio engineering and Maria Tan from House of Thriving for co-producing this podcast season.