About

A  career software entrepreneur, Levi’s life changed dramatically in 1999 when his best friend came to the office one morning and announced the Chinese Communist Party had taken away his mother in Beijing to be tortured and “brainwashed.” This marked the beginning of his volunteer work to defend human rights in China. Two years later, Levi himself was detained in a Chinese jail outside Beijing for secretly meeting with Western reporters and protesting on Tiananmen Square. 

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Today, Levi serves as the Executive Director with the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center – an organization dedicated to ending the human rights abuses against people who practice Falun Gong in China. He also serves as a trustee at Fei Tian College, a renowned performing arts conservatory where most Shen Yun performers are trained. His commitment to the arts extends to his family, as both of his adult sons are accomplished performers with Shen Yun, bringing traditional Chinese culture to global audiences.

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Over the past 20 years, Levi has been interviewed and quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, CNN, the Associated Press, TIME Magazine, BBC, AFP, and other media outlets. He has spoken about Falun Gong and human rights in China at briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, at the United Nations human rights sessions in Geneva, Switzerland. 

 

Levi studied East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University. He founded several software start-ups, and lives in New York with his wife and two sons.