Currently, Levinger plays a number of key roles at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in addition to serving as distinguished professor.
Levinger is one of the three co-founders (along with Vicky Colbert and Oscar Mogollon) of the highly acclaimed Escuela Nueva movement that began in Colombia.
She is also founder of the Coverdell Peace Corps Fellows Program and was part of the team that founded InterAction, the leading association of US-based NGOs.
In 1996, she delivered the ninth annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture (Capacity, Capital and Calories), based on her research regarding the interplay among learning outcomes, nutrition and health.
[citation needed] Levinger served as director or co-director of research for all but one of the annual Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers Report.