Janet Levine is a South African born, Amer­i­can author, edu­ca­tor, pre­sen­ter, non­prof­it entre­pre­neur. Levine was an activist against apartheid when she was liv­ing in South Africa. She was elect­ed to the Johan­nes­burg City Coun­cil in 1977. Dur­ing her time on the Coun­cil, she filed motions to open insti­tu­tions to all races and was active­ly involved with black trade orga­ni­za­tions which led her to launch a black taxi dri­vers’ coop­er­a­tive. She was a mem­ber of the Coun­cil until 1984 when she and her fam­i­ly emi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States. She resumed her career as an edu­ca­tor where she taught in the Eng­lish depart­ment at Mil­ton Acad­e­my from 1986 until 2014.

In 1989, Levine, a well-known free­lance jour­nal­ist wrote Inside Apartheid: One Wom­an’s Strug­gle in South Africa, a polit­i­cal mem­oir about her oppo­si­tion to the apartheid regime. Levine also stud­ied the Ennea­gram mod­el and in 1999 pub­lished The Ennea­gram Intel­li­gences: Under­stand­ing Per­son­al­i­ty for Effec­tive Teach­ing and Learn­ing. She fol­lowed up with the book Know Your Par­ent­ing Per­son­al­i­ty: How to Use the Ennea­gram to Become the Best Par­ent You Can Be in 2003, a book that dis­cuss­es par­ent­ing styles based on a par­en­t’s indi­vid­ual per­son­al­i­ty. Her oth­er books include Read­ing Mat­ters: How Lit­er­a­ture Influ­ences Life in 2022, draw­ing on her work in the class­room with lit­er­a­ture and phi­los­o­phy. Liv’s Secrets fol­lowed in 2023. This nov­el fic­tion­al­izes the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence in South Africa 1880 – 1960 and was nom­i­nat­ed for the Nation­al Book Award 2023. In 2025 Levine’s con­tri­bu­tions to social jus­tice and edu­ca­tion were acknowl­edged with a page in Wikipedia.