Rewrite LA Team

THE DRIVERS

  • Nick Goddard

    Nick is a Los Angeles-based producer and creative strategist leading Rewrite LA's vision and execution. At the Berggruen Institute, he develops storytelling initiatives bridging culture, democracy, and systems change. Through Rewrite LA, he connects Hollywood's creative community with civic innovators to prototype new models of democratic participation.

  • Alex Levy

    Alex advances participatory democracy by bringing together diverse residents to shape solutions. She advances this work locally through Public Democracy LA and ReWrite LA, and nationally with Braver Angels and Better Together America, drawing on over a decade of international civic engagement experience.

  • Joe Mathews

    Joe is a fourth-generation Southern Californian journalist and Renovating Democracy fellow at the Berggruen Institute. He serves as California columnist at Zócalo Public Square and founder-publisher of Democracy Local. He has led the Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy since 2008 and written four books on California governance.

Advisors

  • Executive Director, Metagov

  • Executive Director, Democracy Without Elections

  • Program Director, Healthy Democracy

  • Co-Founder, Public Democracy Los Angeles

  • Oscar Winning Director of Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

  • President, Berggruen Institute

  • Content Advisor and Community Currator

Collaborators