LOS ANGELES (August 14, 2020) -- American singer-songwriter and BBC host Doug Levitt has been selected for the prestigious Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Fellowship.  Notable fellows of The Royal Society of Arts through its nearly three centuries include Benjamin Franklin, George Washington Carver, Charles Dickens, Nelson Mandela, Dame Judy Dench, Richard Attenborough, Marie Curie, and Stephen Hawking.   

 

Doug Levitt has traveled well over 12 years and 120,000 Greyhound miles, writing songs about fellow travelers.  He has performed in venues ranging from prisons, VAs, and shelters to The Kennedy Center, Woody Guthrie Center, and Southern Poverty Law Center. 

 

His forthcoming album Edge of Everywhere is produced by multi-Grammy winning producer Trina Shoemaker (Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Josh Ritter).

 

He has been featured on numerous outlets including CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and Reuters.

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Before his Greyhound journeys, Levitt was based in London and dispatched from far-flung locales, including Iran, Rwanda, and Bosnia for, among others, ABC, NBC, and CNN.  

 

A graduate of Cornell University, where he was a mentee of Carl Sagan's in Critical Thinking, Doug received a Fulbright Scholarship and earned his masters from the London School of Economics in International Relations with a focus on nationalism. Before that, he graduated from the Washington, DC public schools.