Jay Levin leads a nonprofit advocacy campaign, EQuip Our Kids!, whose focus is raising the emotional intelligence of humanity, starting with children and youth. EQuip promotes getting Social-Emotional Learning curriculum into every pre-K to 12 school. Motivated by the reality that much of the public is unaware of the remarkable child, school, family, workplace, and society outcomes of this learning. Jay argues that SEL and its kin by other names are actually a social movement needed to raise human consciousness on a mass level out of the paradigm of conflict, pain, inequity, and misery – which is inevitable in the historic child development and human relationship training we have inherited.

Jay has led six media companies and launched six nonprofits dedicated to social change. He is best known as the founder and former editor-in-chief and CEO of the multiple-award-winning Los Angeles Weekly, which under his editorial and business leadership became the largest circulation and most advertising-rich weekly newspaper in the country. Jay is also trained in depth psychology. As a life coach over the years, he has part-time worked with hundreds of individuals and groups in transforming their lives. Currently, he leads a monthly mastermind group that coaches CEOs on elevating their businesses.