MICHAEL LEVITIN is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall StreetJournal. He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for theEnglish language newspaper Bolivian Times. He earned his master’s degree from theColumbia Graduate School of Journalism and later worked as a freelance correspondentin Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. His writing hasappeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Financial Times, Newsweek, Time and the LosAngeles Times, among other publications. His debut novel, Disposable Man, was publishedin 2019. He teaches journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area,where he lives with his partner and daughter.