Ketzel Levine Biography
Ketzel Levine is an American radio journalist. She began her broadcast career in 1974. She joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1977 and worked, variously, as the network’s arts producer, sports director, features reporter and garden expert. From 2000 through 2008, she was a senior correspondent for the NPR program Morning Edition.
Due to cutbacks at the network, she was laid off, while working on a documentary series about Americans coping with economic stress and job loss. Her final NPR broadcast was about how she, herself, had just lost her job.
Ketzel Levine Age
Her Birth Month and day are still not known. However, the information will be updated as soon as it’s clear.
Ketzel Levine Family
Levine has kept her personal life off the cameras. There is no information about her parents and her early life. However, there is information that she studied music and communications. Currently, she lives in Portland, Oregon.
Ketzel Levine Net Worth
She is a journalist, reporter and gardener who is diligent in her work. She lives a lavish life and she must have garnered quite a numerous amount. Her net worth is still under review but will be updated as soon as it’s clear.
Ketzel Levine Career
Broadcast
Levine’s academic background was in music and communications. Her first job in broadcasting was at the full-time, non-commercial classical music station WMHT-FM in Schenectady, NY. In 1977, she moved to Washington, D.C. to work at NPR. While there, she produced the arts magazine, Voices in the Wind. In 1979, she became part of the original staff of Morning Edition, where she remained until moving to London to report for the BBC World Service.
She also freelanced for NPR, CNN and the BBC domestic service. She returned to NPR full-time as its arts reporter in 1986. In 1990, she took up studies in horticulture, began her own landscape and design business, and in 1992 she became NPR’s horticultural reporter. The “Doyenne of Dirt”, broadcasting for the next ten years on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
During this time she was also a contributing writer for Horticulture Magazine, a features writer for Martha Stewart Living and a contributing writer for The Oregonian. In 2000, she published ‘Plant This!’ (Sasquatch Books, 2000).
Still, in 2000, she became a senior correspondent for Morning Edition. In 2007, she expanded her horticultural reporting with the year-long special program, “Climate Connections”. She also produced and reported for the series, “Take Two: People Reinventing Themselves Through Their Work”, and at the time of her dismissal, was producing and writing a series documenting the effects of the economic crisis, “American Moxie: How We Get By”.
Levine’s career with NPR ended when she was one of 64 people laid off in December 2008, as she was producing the “American Moxie” series. In her last series installment, she reported about her own layoff.
Horticultural career
Levine studied at the George Washington University School of Landscape Design. She began her own business, Hortus Landscaping, in 1991. Later she began a career writing about horticulture, botanizing, and lecturing for garden clubs, botanic gardens and arboretums.
After moving to Portland, OR in 1996, she became the northwest regional correspondent for Horticulture Magazine and a contributing editor for The Oregonian. Her newspaper plant profiles were published in the book, Plant This! (Sasquatch Books, 2000). Levine’s own garden has been featured in several magazines, including Portland Monthly. A profile of she and her garden was published in the February 2011 issue of Sunset Magazine.
Animal rescue
Following her layoff from NPR, she pursued a lifelong interest in animal welfare. She began writing for the Humane Society of the United States and working for the Portland office of In Defense of Animals (IDA). Additionally, in September 2010, she became the volunteer creative and communications director for The Animal Rescue Association of the Americas, the first professional association for animal rescue groups. In November 2015, she was in Ecuador pursuing local animal rescue efforts.