Genelle Levy is a journalist whose work focuses on race, culture, LGBTQ+ people and women's rights. Her reporting has taken her to Alabama, where she reported on high rates of HIV infection in LGBTQ+ communities of color due to healthcare inequities and to Oakville, Ontario where she explored the 200-year-old historical Black community that helped shape the town. Genelle has also been on staff at Meredith Corp Media and Narratively Media where she helped transform the coverage of racial issues and increased the number of BIPOC contributors. Her work as an arts reporter has helped showcase young creatives of color in popular teen magazines such as TeenVogue, Bustle and HelloGiggles. In 2019, her story for Narratively.com on the legacy of Black bourgeois communities in Martha's Vineyard garnered 100,000 views, and attracted the attention of several television producers in Hollywood. As a professor, Genelle has trained students in the basics of reporting, feature writing, broadcast journalism and citizen journalism. Her goal as an educator is to help students reveal the underlying intersections in their communities. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Global News, TeenVogue, Toronto Life, Conde Nast's Them, Bustle, TVO.org, Flare, Out Magazine, Shondaland.com and many other places.
