Ian Levy

Ian Levy is a former high school counselor, school counselor educator, and emcee. His research explores preparing school counselors to use Hip Hop based interventions to support youth development. Dr. Levy’s work has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, and is documented in a variety of academic journals. His research monograph, Hip Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling: Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches, is published with Routledge. In 2023 he released his second album, Sometimes I Forget Where I’ve Been, available on all streaming platforms.

Dr. Levy chose to work at the GSE because of it’s dedication towards equity and excellence in education, which is strongly aligned with his research and practical work in K-12 schools. Dr. Levy believes the school counselor’s identity as always both an educator and a counselor; a position that is supported by the GSE’s commitment to training school counselors alongside other school building educators, helping to forge necessary interdisciplinary collaborations that promote the wellbeing of young people in K-12 schools.

• Expertise & Research Interest
  Hip Hop ​and School Counseling Research and Practice

  Youth Participatory Action Research

  School Counselor Identity, Theory, and Intervention Research
• Recent & Selected Publications

  Levy, I., Edirmanasinghe, N., Ieva, K., & Steen, S.L. (2024). The Pursuit of a Combined Educator-Counselor Identity: Gaps and Opportunities in School Counselor Training Scholarship. Teaching, Supervision, in Counseling. https://trace.tennessee.edu/tsc/vol6/iss2/1/

  Levy, I., Norris, J., & Jefferson, L. (2024) The Evaluation of a Hip Hop and Counseling Praxis Course: Insights for Counselor Educators. Teaching, Supervision, in Counseling. https://trace.tennessee.edu/tsc/vol6/iss2/6/

  Levy, I., Bell, M. (2024) From Our Cell to Your Block: Hip Hop and Podcasting as a Youth Action Research Intervention. Professional School Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X241234913

  Levy, I., Edirmanasinghe, N., & Ieva, K. (2024). The Intersection of Hip Hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to Create and Sustain Homeplace. Theory into Practice. DOI: 10.1080/00405841.2023.2287762

  Levy, I., Edirmanasinghe, N., Ieva, K., & Hilliard, C. (2023). Youth Participatory Action Research as School Counseling Praxis: A Scoping Review. Professional School Counseling, 27(1a). https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X231153347.

  Levy, I., & Wong, C. (2022) Processing A White Supremacist Insurrection through Hip Hop Mixtape Making: A School Counseling Intervention. Equity & Excellence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2022.2158398

  Levy, I., & Keum, B.T. (2022) Supporting School Counselor’s Multicultural Self-Efficacy Development Through Hip Hop Based Coursework. Journal of Poetry Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2022.2131473

  Levy, I. & Lemberger-Truelove, M.E. (2021). Educator-Counselor: A Non-Dual Identity for Professional School Counselors. Professional School Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156759X211007630

• Honors & Awards

  2018 – Association for Humanistic Counseling Emerging Leader

  2017 – Outstanding Doctoral Student of the Year – Teachers College, Columbia University Department of Health and Behavior Studies

  2016 – New York State School Counselor of the Year

• Files

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