Executive Director and Founder at ISIS, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Executive Director and Founder at ISIS, Inc.
- Past
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- Director of Lifestyles Programming at ThriveOnline
- Editorial Director at Great Entertaining
- Health Educator at Columbia University Health Services: Go Ask Alice!
- Trainer & Grant Writer at Safe Horizon
- Education
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- New York University
- Cornell University
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Deb Levine’s Summary
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Deb Levine is the Executive Director of Internet Sexuality Information Services - ISIS, Inc. - a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing Internet technologies to enhance the sexual well-being of individuals and communities. She has been working professionally on the Internet for more than 12 years. She was a sex educator at Columbia University where she designed an award-winning online sexual health question-and-answer service, Go Ask Alice! She wrote an online sex advice column, Ask Delilah, for AOL and Time-Warner, and the Sexuality blog on Yahoo! Health in 2005-6.
Deb Levine collaborates with researchers, health professionals, ISPs and commercial website owners. She teaches a course at San Francisco State University -- "Sexuality and the Internet." She is the author of "The Joy of Cybersex: A Guide for Creative Lovers" (Ballantine 1998), as well as numerous academic papers. She is often asked to speak at national and international conferences about the role the Internet plays in sexual health promotion and disease prevention.
Deb Levine’s Experience
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Executive Director and Founder
ISIS, Inc.
(Program Development industry)
January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)
Our mission is to use technology for sexual health promotion and disease prevention. See our innovative websites:
www.inspot.org -- an online STD peer to peer partner notification service
www.sextext.org -- a sexual health SMS text messaging service for youth
www.californiamen.net -- an HIV prevention intervention for gay and bisexual men -
Director of Lifestyles Programming
ThriveOnline
(Program Development industry)
1996 — 2001 (5 years)
ThriveOnline.com was a joint venture between AOL and Time Inc magazines. As one of the founding members, Deb was responsible for developing health and lifestyles programming for viewers on two platforms - AOL and Time-Warner's Pathfinder. I supervised staff, hired experts, moderated chats and bulletin boards, and developed new content programming.
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Editorial Director
Great Entertaining
(Program Development industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
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Health Educator
Columbia University Health Services: Go Ask Alice!
(Program Development industry)
1993 — 1996 (3 years)
Creator of the Internet's first health Q&A service, Go Ask Alice!
www.goaskalice.columbia.edu
Responsible for providing in-person workshops to college students about sexual health, relationships, nutrition and healthy eating, along with answering 10-15 questions a week as Alice of Go Ask Alice! -
Trainer & Grant Writer
Safe Horizon
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Alternative Dispute Resolution industry)
January 1992 — January 1993 (1 year 1 month)
Worked in the training dept of the largest agency serving crime victims in New York City. Trained social workers, court staff, counselors in issues around domestic violence, incest, child sexual abuse, and rape. Wrote grant funded by Helena Rubenstein Foundation - Project Trailblazer - an experiential education program for domestic violence survivors. Wrote middle school curriculm for preventing dating violence adopted by Brooklyn school system.
Deb Levine’s Education
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New York University
MA , Experiential Education , 1989 — 1991
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Cornell University
1980 — 1985
