Beth Spotswood

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Beth Spotswood Daza (born January 28, 1978, in San Francisco, California), known professionally as Beth Spotswood, is a writer. Among the issues she addresses is gentrification. [1]

Biography

Born in San Francisco, California, and raised in Mill Valley, California, Spotswood attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco and Philadelphia University graduating in 1996 and 2000, respectively. [2] [3] After graduating in 2000, she returned to San Francisco and began working at Steve Silver's now-defunct Beach Blanket Babylon in 2001. [4]

She was hired by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2007 to write for their culture blog.[ citation needed ] Spotswood also wrote for the now-defunct San Francisco Appeal and VidSF.[ citation needed ] As of 2021, she is also the digital editor for Alta Magazine. [4]

Spotswood lives in Novato, California, with her husband and son born in 2018. [5] [6]

Her father is former Mill Valley Mayor and current Marin Independent Journal columnist Dick Spotswood. [7]

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