 Emily Levine gives new meaning to the term "paradigm shift." Using her considerable gifts at humor and her Harvard education, Levine tackles the world of shifting business practices and technologies. A stand-up and stand-out addition to any trade association or corporate program - Levine takes all of the ideas and presentations given at meeting workshops and keynotes and wraps them into a completely customized and extremely funny presentation. Levine debuted this presentation at the 2001 TED Conference at the invitation of Norman Lear and was a HUGE HIT. Emily Levine was born in Nashville , raised in Connecticut and Brooklyn , and educated at Harvard. Upon receipt of her honors degree, she went to Rome where she dubbed spaghetti westerns and learned to gesticulate. Returning to Brooklyn , she taught autistic children until she joined a comedy group who ultimately drove her crazy. It was at this point she became a comedian, performing on television and headlining in comedy clubs. The Los Angeles Times called Emily "a stand-out as a stand-up" and "the mad professor genius comic." Newsweek Magazine called her one of the new "queens of comedy." In LA, Emily became a television writer. She worked on existing series (Designing Women, Love and War, Dangerous Minds) and created pilots for new series under her deals with Universal Studios and the Walt Disney Company. During her stint at the latter, she was asked to speak at a think tank co-convened by Betty Friedan and the Institute for the Study of Women and Men at USC. The challenge of bringing her wit, charm and intellect to a serious subject was exhilarating. A subsequent invitation to entertain at a physicists' think tank in La Jolla resulted in Emily's one-woman show, "eLevine.universe." Emily has performed "eLevine.universe" at the Tiffany Theater in Los Angeles and at the American Place Theater and the 92nd St. Y in New York . She is also, thanks to two smash appearances at the TED (Technology/Entertainment/Design) Conference, newly launched as a corporate speaker. This fresh direction exploits Emily's ability to play the role of change agent, to find the interface between her material and the specific challenges facing corporations and other institutions in the process of re-visioning themselves. Already anticipating her success in this last, best career, Emily has started work on a new show, entitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Market."
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