Alex Werth
Alex Werth is a writer, researcher, and DJ. His work exists at the intersection of anti-displacement organizing, policy advocacy, and public culture. While living for over a decade in the East Bay, he served as a Curatorial Fellow at the Matatu Festival of Stories, Public Imagination Fellow at Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, and co-curator and resident DJ of Oakland’s Good Culture. In 2018, Werth worked on Belonging in Oakland, the City of Oakland’s first plan for cultural equity and development in 30 years. His essays have appeared in Africa Is a Country, Antipode, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Sounding Out, and more. With a BA in urban studies from Brown University and a PhD in geography from UC Berkeley, Alex now works as a policy and research consultant specializing in tenants’ rights and housing justice in the Bay Area.
