Kenton Card (he/him) is an urban planner, community organizer, and filmmaker. He investigates housing policy, with expertise in tenant rights, social movements, and mitigation of evictions and displacement.

Kenton is an Assistant Professor at San José State University, and formerly served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota and the Initiative on Cities at Boston University.

Kenton received the 2024 Janet Smith Emerging Activist Scholar Research Award from the Urban Affairs Association.

His research engages (1) innovations in housing policy, (2) mechanisms driving institutional change, and (3) political communication.

Kenton’s professional experience includes nonprofit leadership, policy evaluation, and documentary film production. He serves on the board of the Minneapolis-based housing cooperative called Riverton Community Housing. Recent work evaluates how new tenant rights impact housing markets, which he has written about for the general public. Previously, he helped design and support the passage of Louisville’s Anti-Displacement Ordinance.

Kenton’s films include the award-winning educational documentary Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore.