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Mark D. Levine (born April 30, 1969) is the Council member for the 7th District of the New York City Council. He is a Democrat. The district includes Morningside Heights, part of the Upper West Side and Washington Heights in Manhattan. ==Life and career== Born in Chicago, Illinois, Levine grew up in Columbia, Maryland. He majored in physics at Haverford College and the University of Seville, Spain. He received a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1995. Levine taught bilingual math and science at Junior High School 149 in the South Bronx from 1991 to 1993. He was a Teach For America corps member in the program’s early years. In 1994 he founded Neighborhood Trust Federal Credit Union, a cooperatively-owned financial institution serving low-income families in the Washington Heights section of Northern Manhattan. Levine unsuccessfully ran for the New York City Council in 2001, but came in second to the incumbent, Robert Jackson. In 2010, he lost a race for the New York Senate to succeed Eric Schneiderman to Adriano Espaillat. In 2007 Levine was elected Democratic District Leader in the 71st Assembly District, Part A, representing parts of Hamilton Heights/West Harlem and Washington Heights. He was an early supporter of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential primary, and ran on Obama’s delegate slate that year in New York’s 15th Congressional District. In 2009 Levine founded the Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan, a progressive, reform-oriented local political club. In 2010 he ran for New York State Senate in the 31st District, finishing second in a four-way race with 39% of the vote. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark D. Levine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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