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Simona Levi is a theatre director, playwright, activist, technopolitical strategist, cultural manager and curator, multidisciplinary artist, researcher, reporter, teacher and lecturer.
Born in Italy and naturalized Spanish, she has been living in Barcelona, Spain, since 1990.
She is a prominent activist in European social movements supporting the free circulation of knowledge, culture and information, e-democracy, strategic use of digital tools for organization, communication, collective action and the struggle against corruption.
She has also participated in movements in defense of the right to housing and use of public space.
She is a key figure in the establishment of Xnet, the Free Culture Forum, the anticorruption movement 15MpaRato, and the Citizens Group against Corruption at both Catalan and Spanish levels.
Simona Levi is coauthor of the book TecnopolĂtica, internet y r-evoluciones - Sobre la centralidad de redes digitales en el #15M1 and editor of Cultura libre digital - Nociones básicas para defender lo que es de todxs, both of which were published in 2012 by Icaria.
Since 2018 she is the academic director of the Postgraduate Course in Technopolitics and Rights in the Digital Era at the UPF Barcelona School of Management, in the Pompeu Fabra University.In October 2019 she co-authored #FakeYou, Fake news and disinformation - Governments, political parties, mass media, corporations, big fortunes: monopolies of information manipulation and cuts to freedom of expression, published by Rayo Verde.
In 2017 Rolling Stone magazine chose Simona Levi, as the founder of Xnet and for her work with 15MpaRato, as one of 25 people in the world who are shaping the future.