Bio
Levi Maaia “Leave-eye | My-uh”
email contact • curriculum vitae available upon request
technologist (n.)
one who applies scientific knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry
Providence Business News 8/19/2009:
Five questions with: Levi C. Maaia
Levi C. Maaia is a graduate research fellow at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Center for Education Research on Literacy & Inquiry in Networking Communities. His research focuses on digital literacies in teaching and learning. As the teacher and curriculum developer of the digital media course at The Anacapa School, he also works directly with middle school and high school students.
In 2004 Levi joined Full Channel, a family-owned broadband provider in Bristol County, R.I. Under his leadership as the company’s vice president, Full Channel has successfully turned around a declining subscriber base while making its first forays into digital and high-definition television, IP telephony and renewable energy solutions. In 2008 he developed and launched Full Channel’s renewable wind energy initiative GreenLink through a partnership forged with sustainable energy provider People’s Power & Light. As a result, cable industry trade publication CableFAX honored Full Channel with its 2009 Top Op Community Service Award.
Prior to Levi’s work at Full Channel he founded ComCreations LLC, a communications and new media development company, in 1996. In 1999, he and two colleagues brought some of the first independent film and video to the World Wide Web with Green Line TV, a video-streaming precursor to YouTube. Today ComCreations continues to provide new media consulting and development to a variety of clients in the public and private sectors.
Levi enjoys sailing, flying and photography.
