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Andy Levin election 2018
Andrew S. "Andy" Levin is the founder and managing partner of Levin Energy Partners, LLC, a firm he established in 2011 to provide innovative financing tools to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in American buildings. Starting in Michigan, Levin is leveraging new Property Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, statues passed by many states and packaging all available incentives to help business owners save money and energy, help communities create jobs and help the U.S. reduce its carbon footprint. Levin served as Deputy Director and then Acting Director of the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth (DELEG) from January 2007 through February 2011, and was named by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm as Michigan's first Chief Workforce Officer in 2009. At DELEG, Levin drove the design and implementation of Governor Granholm's No Worker Left Behind initiative and made it a guidepost for national workforce policy. Under his direction, No Worker Left Behind has greatly increased the number and proportion of workers who get the kind of long-term training that can change lives. Levin created a more efficient, capable and strategic state workforce agency by eliminating the outdated bureaus of workforce programs and career education and replacing them with the Bureau of Workforce Transformation. Levin personally led efforts to create Michigan’s Green Jobs Initiative, produced a rigorous report on green jobs that won a national award for labor market research, and established the Academy for Green Mobility. During his tenure at DELEG, Levin was covered, quoted in or appeared on many media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Fox National News, MSNBC Street Signs, National Public Radio and most major Michigan newspapers, television and radio stations. Levin, a lifelong advocate for clean energy, good jobs, healthy labor-management relations, economic development and human rights, has worked in the labor and nonprofit sectors as well as for the federal and state governments. He was the Democratic nominee for 13th District Michigan State Senate seat in 2006 and lost an extremely close election in the Republican-leaning area.
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Levin was born in Detroit and grew up in Berkley, Michigan, attending Berkley public schools. He lives in suburban Oakland County where he grew up. His children are fifth-generation residents of the county. At the turn of the 20th century, Levin's great grandfather owned the general store in Birmingham, a Detroit suburb that was then a country town. Levin moved with his family to Chevy Chase, MD in 1977 when his father, Sander M. Levin, who currently represents Michigan's 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives and serves as Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, was appointed by President Carter as Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Levin graduated from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in 1978.
Levin earned a B.A. with honors in Religion at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1982. During college, Levin spent a year in Sarnath, India studying Tibetan language and philosophy, and traveled widely in South Asia. He was a leader of the Williams Anti-Apartheid Coalition and active in environmental causes.
After college, Levin spent five years working for the Service Employees International Union, organizing hundreds of nursing home workers in Michigan, Indiana, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Levin won seven of the eight campaigns he directed and assisted colleagues on many others. He learned to speak Haitian Creole after he found that many workers in New England nursing homes were recent Haitian immigrants. He served as an international observer at Haiti's brutally suppressed first attempt at democratic presidential elections in 1987.
Levin received a prestigious Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities in 1988 and took it to the